Alcohol withdrawal severity is decreased by symptom-orientated adjusted bolus therapy in the ICU

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2230-2238

  Sellers, Edward M ^c   Spies, Claudia D ^a   Otter, Hilke E ^a   Hüske, Bernd ^a   Sinha, Pranav ^a   Neumann, Tim ^a   Rettig, Jordan ^b   Lenzenhuber, Erika ^a   Kox, Wolfgang J ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol withdrawal syndrome; Clinical Institute of Withdrawal Assessment; Critically ill patients; Pneumonia; Surgical intensive care unit; Symptom orientated therapy

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGITATION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; BRADYCARDIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; PSYCHOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; CLONIDINE; DECISION TREES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLUNITRAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0348225245     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2033-3     Document Type: Article

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