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Use of Phenobarbital in Delirium Tremens [PDF]
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2017 The standard of care for alcohol withdrawal centers on the use of escalating doses of benzodiazepines until clinical improvement is achieved. However, there is no established standard in the care of patients with severe alcohol withdrawal and delirium ...
Jeffrey Fujimoto BS +2 more
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Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens [PDF]
Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2019 Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite ...
Paritosh Kafle MBBS +8 more
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Could we predict an episode of delirium tremens? Case report [PDF]
European Psychiatry, 2023 Introduction Delirium tremens is one of the most serious complications associated with alcohol withdrawal. It affects a percentage of 5 to 20% of users and is not related to the duration of consumption nor to the quantities taken.
A. Tounsi +4 more
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Alcohol Withdrawal with Delirium Tremens. [PDF]
J Educ Teach Emerg Med, 2023 Audience Emergency medicine (EM) residents (1st year and 2nd year levels), 4th year medical students and advanced practice providers Introduction Alcohol use has played a major role in causing significant morbidity and mortality for patients. In 2016, it
Schwebach C, Vempati A.
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy precipitated by delirium tremens [PDF]
Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2015 A 57-year-old woman presented with alcohol withdrawal symptoms, which later progressed to delirium tremens. During hospitalization, she developed respiratory distress with acute pulmonary edema.
Chidozie Charles Agu +6 more
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Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2004 The varied clinical manifestations and management of 14 male patients with delirium tremens (DT) have been studied. Eight patients were initially hospitalised for diseases unrelated to ethanol abuse i.e. 2 each for gun shot wound, myocardial infarction and stroke, and one each for pneumonia and gastroenteritis.
S R, Mehta +4 more
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Agrypnia Excitata: A Case of Delirium Tremens and Review of the Literature
Türk Uyku Tıbbı Dergisi, 2021 Agrypnia excitata represents a triad of three subgroups of disorders having similar clinical characteristics, namely, delirium tremens caused by alcohol withdrawal, fatal familial insomnia (an autosomal dominant prion disease) and Morvan syndrome ...
Yasin Kavla +2 more
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Altered Mental Status: Epilepsy, Acute Psychosis, Intoxication or Delirium Tremens?
Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2016 Audience: This simulation session can be used for emergency medicine residents or medical students, but it may be more appropriate for senior residents. Junior residents and medical students may also misdiagnose delirium tremens as a seizure disorder.
Shannon Toohey
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Repetitive Myocardial Infarctions Secondary to Delirium Tremens [PDF]
Case Reports in Critical Care, 2014 Delirium tremens develops in a minority of patients undergoing acute alcohol withdrawal; however, that minority is vulnerable to significant morbidity and mortality.
David Schwartzberg, Adam Shiroff
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