Clinical Predictors of Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 1994 Wetterling T, Kanitz R-D, Veltrup C, Driessen M. Clinical Predictors of Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 1994;18(5):1100-1102.Up to now, clinical predictors for the course of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome ...
Tilman Wetterling, Martin Driessen
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Continuous alcohol withdrawal delirium and physical illness‐associated delirium in a man brought to the emergency department after a disaster: A case report [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacology ReportsBackground Risk factors for alcohol withdrawal delirium include heavy drinking, prior alcohol withdrawal delirium or convulsions, nondrug sedative use, and a history of tachycardia, withdrawal, and infections.
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Alcohol Withdrawal with Delirium Tremens [PDF]
Journal of education & teaching in emergency medicine, 2023 :Audience: Emergency medicine (EM) residents (1st year and 2nd year levels), 4th year medical students and advanced practice providersIntroduction:Alcohol use has played a major role in causing significant morbidity and mortality for ...
Schwebach, MD, Courtney +1 more
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Adjuvant dexmedetomidine in treatment of alcohol withdrawal delirium: Case series
Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, 2023 Alcohol withdrawal delirium is a medical emergency with mortality rates of 20–50% without treatment. Benzodiazepines (BZDs) (gamma-aminobutyric acid receptor agonists) are the mainstay of treatment.
Amit Chail +3 more
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Genital self mutilation in alcohol withdrawal state complicated with delirium
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2011 Genital self mutilation is a rare and a severe form of self-injurious behavior usually described in psychotic disorders, with delusions and hallucinations.
Sri Hari Charan, C. M. Pavan Kumar Reddy
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Delirium due to sepsis-associated encephalopathy mimicking alcohol withdrawal delirium
Journal of Medical Sciences, 2017 Delirium is caused by an underlying physiological disturbance, and treatment requires identification of the underlying cause. Making this diagnosis requires careful differential diagnosis. However, often the cause of delirium is hard to recognize.
Li-Yuan Liu +3 more
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Successful treatment of severe alcohol withdrawal delirium with very high-dose diazepam (260–480 mg) administration [PDF]
Current Medical Research and OpinionIntroduction: Alcohol withdrawal delirium, commonly known as “delirium tremens (DT)”, is the most severe clinical condition of alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS).
Sukru Alperen Korkmaz +2 more
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Iatrogenic Delirium in Patients on Symptom-Triggered Alcohol Withdrawal Protocol: A Case Series [PDF]
, 2021 In this report, we present a case series involving four patients placed on the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol, Revised (CIWA-Ar) protocol for alcohol or sedative-hypnotic withdrawal syndromes, who developed delirium on ...
Nguyen, Bao-Nhan B +8 more
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Delirium at the elderly patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2021 IntroductionThe psychoses in patients with dependence of alcohol are in many cases polyethiologic, this is especially common in the elderly due to accumulation of various somato-neurological pathologies.Objectives88 men, with alcohol withdrawal syndrome accompanied by delirium; the average age - 70,4 ± 3,9 years, duration of alcohol abuse - 27,4 ± 6,5 ...
V. Kuzminov, I. Linskiy
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Alcohol withdrawal delirium - diagnosis, course and treatment [PDF]
Biomedical Papers, 2015 Delirium tremens represents the most severe complication of alcohol withdrawal syndrome and, in its complications, significantly increases the morbidity and mortality of patients. Alcohol withdrawal delirium is characterized by features of alcohol withdrawal itself (tremor, sweating, hypertension, tachycardia etc.) together with general delirious ...
Barbora Mainerova +6 more
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