Prevalency prophylaxis and treatment of Wernicke encephalopathy. Thiamine, how much and how do we give it?;Prévalence, prophylaxie et traitement de l'encéphalopathie de Gayet-Wernicke. Quelle dose et quel mode d'administration de la thiamine?

Revue Medicale Suisse

Volumn 1, Issue 26, 2005, Pages 1740-1744

  Meier, Susanne ^a   Daeppen, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THIAMINE;

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; AMBULATORY CARE; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATAXIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; INFUSION;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; PREVALENCE; THIAMINE; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY;

EID: 32944481652     PISSN: 16609379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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