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PRN Sedative Orders in Alcohol Withdrawal Treatment
Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:1093-1094.
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DR DAEPPEN and colleagues1 report in
this issue of the ARCHIVES the use of an individualized treatment regimen
to determine the number of doses of benzodiazepine administered during alcohol
withdrawal in patients specifically entering an alcoholic treatment program
at Lausanne and Geneva university hospitals in Switzerland. Because patients
were excluded from the study if they had their last alcoholic beverage more
than 72 hours preceding admission; if they were using other medications before
admission that might influence alcohol withdrawal; if they had major cognitive,
psychiatric, or medical comorbidity; or if they were users of concurrent opiates
and stimulants, the results of this study are probably not generalizable to
the usual population of alcoholic patients admitted to most hospitals in the
United States. Only 117 (6%) of 2000 consecutive patients admitted to the
treatment program in Switzerland were ultimately included for analysis in
the study.
Patients were either given regular doses . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Arch Intern Med. 2002;162(10):1117-1121.
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