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Southern Medical Journal, 2012
Alcohol withdrawal is a common clinical condition that has a variety of complications and morbidities. The manifestations can range from mild agitation to withdrawal seizures and delirium tremens. The treatments for alcohol withdrawal include benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants, beta-blockers and antihypertensives. Although benzodiazepines are presently a
Anton, Manasco +4 more
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Alcohol withdrawal is a common clinical condition that has a variety of complications and morbidities. The manifestations can range from mild agitation to withdrawal seizures and delirium tremens. The treatments for alcohol withdrawal include benzodiazepines, anticonvulsants, beta-blockers and antihypertensives. Although benzodiazepines are presently a
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Nursing, 2023
Abstract: Approximately 50% of people with alcohol use disorder experience alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) after abruptly decreasing or abstaining from alcohol consumption. This article presents the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management of patients with AWS.
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Abstract: Approximately 50% of people with alcohol use disorder experience alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) after abruptly decreasing or abstaining from alcohol consumption. This article presents the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management of patients with AWS.
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Medical Clinics of North America, 2001
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a significant cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Physicians should be able to: (1) identify high-risk patients preoperatively by using the various screening tests, (2) recognize patterns with AWS, and (3) use the appropriate supportive, behavioral, nutritional and pharmacological treatment.
P H, Chang, M B, Steinberg
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Alcohol withdrawal syndrome is a significant cause of perioperative morbidity and mortality. Physicians should be able to: (1) identify high-risk patients preoperatively by using the various screening tests, (2) recognize patterns with AWS, and (3) use the appropriate supportive, behavioral, nutritional and pharmacological treatment.
P H, Chang, M B, Steinberg
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The Nurse Practitioner, 1980
Nurses involved in primary health care are called upon to assess the patient who may present with signs and symptoms of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The purposes of this article are to define the alcohol withdrawal syndrome in terms of its two major phases, to review the underlying pathophysiology of the clinical manifestations, to describe ...
E F, McElmeel, P, Di Dente
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Nurses involved in primary health care are called upon to assess the patient who may present with signs and symptoms of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome. The purposes of this article are to define the alcohol withdrawal syndrome in terms of its two major phases, to review the underlying pathophysiology of the clinical manifestations, to describe ...
E F, McElmeel, P, Di Dente
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Magnesium for alcohol withdrawal
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013Patients have been given magnesium to treat or prevent alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS). Evidence to support this practice is limited, and is often based on the controversial link between hypomagnesaemia and AWS.To assess the effects of magnesium for the prevention or treatment of AWS in hospitalised adults.We searched the Cochrane Drugs and Alcohol ...
Michael, Sarai +4 more
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Alcohol Intoxication and Withdrawal
New England Journal of Medicine, 1976Jan Koch-Weser, M.D., Editor Though the therapy of alcoholism is based primarily on social, psychologic and occasionally psychiatric measures, drug therapies have been used in at least three major problems: intoxication itself; the withdrawal reactions that follow interruption of alcohol intake; and emotional problems in the post-withdrawal period that
J, Koch-Weser, E M, Sellers, H, Kalant
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The Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome
New England Journal of Medicine, 1985The alcohol withdrawal syndrome, with its wide range of clinical presentations, is readily identifiable yet often overlooked in the general hospital population.
W D, Lerner, H J, Fallon
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The alcohol withdrawal syndrome
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2008The alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is a common management problem in hospital practice for neurologists, psychiatrists and general physicians alike. Although some patients have mild symptoms and may even be managed in the outpatient setting, others have more severe symptoms or a history of adverse outcomes that requires close inpatient supervision ...
McKeon, A, Frye, M A, Delanty, Norman
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Management of alcohol withdrawal
American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1995The diagnosis, evaluation and assessment, supportive care, and pharmacologic treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal are reviewed. Patients in alcohol withdrawal have decreased or stopped their heavy, prolonged ingestion of alcohol and have subsequently begun to have at least two of the following symptoms: autonomic hyperactivity, tremor, nausea or ...
B L, Erstad, C L, Cotugno
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Critical Care Clinics, 2012
In susceptible patients, alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is often precipitated by other medical or surgical disorders, and AWS can adversely affect the course of these underlying conditions. Although the mortality rate of AWS has decreased over the past few decades, significant risk for morbidity and death remain if management is complicated by a ...
Richard W, Carlson +6 more
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In susceptible patients, alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is often precipitated by other medical or surgical disorders, and AWS can adversely affect the course of these underlying conditions. Although the mortality rate of AWS has decreased over the past few decades, significant risk for morbidity and death remain if management is complicated by a ...
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