Alcohol withdrawal syndrome: Turning minor injuries into a major problem

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1441-1445

  Bard, Michael R ^a   Goettler, Claudia E ^a   Toschlog, Eric A ^a   Sagraves, Scott G ^a   Schenarts, Paul J ^a   Newell, Mark A ^a   Fugate, Mark ^a   Rotondo, Michael F ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STUDENT T TEST; TRACHEOSTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33845760884     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000245981.22931.43     Document Type: Review

References (28)

1. Walsh JM, Flegel R, Cangianelli LA, Atkins R, Soderstrom CA, Kerns TJ. Epidemiology of alcohol and other drug use among motor vehicle crash victims admitted to a trauma center. Traffic Inj Prev. 2004;5:254-260.
2. Field CA, Claasen CA, O'Keefe G. Association of alcohol use and other high-risk behaviors among trauma patients. J Trauma. 2001;50:13-19.
3. Bayard M, Mcintyre J, Hill KR, Woodside J. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Am Fam Physician. 2004;69:1443-1450.
4. Lukan JK, Reed DN Jr, Looney SW, Spain DA, Blondell RD. Risk factors for delirium tremens in trauma patients. J Trauma. 2002;53:9901-9906.
5. Blondell RD, Powell GE, Dodds HN, Looney SW, Lukan JK. Admission characteristics of trauma patients in whom delirium develops. Am J Surg. 2004;187:332-337.
6. Moss M, Burnham EL. Chronic alcohol abuse, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and multiple organ dysfunction. Crit Care Med. 2003;31:207-212.
7. Moss M, Parsons PE, Steinberg KP, et al. Chronic alcohol abuse is associated with an increased incidence of acute respiratory distress syndrome and severity of multiple organ dysfunction in patients with septic shock. Crit Care Med. 2003;31:869-877.
8. Chang PH, Steinberg MB. Alcohol withdrawal. Med Clin North Am. 2001;85:1191-1212.
9. Enoch MA, Goldman D. Problem drinking and alcoholism: diagnosis and treatment. Am Fam Physician. 2002;65:441-448.
10. Firshein J. Alcohol-treatment programmes are comparable. Lancet. 1997;349:40.
11. Harewood, H. The economic costs of alcohol and drug abuse in the United States: estimates, update methods, and data. Bethesda, MD: Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National institute on Drug Abuse and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism; December 2000.
12. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The Physician's Guide to Helping Patients With Alcohol Problems. NIH Publication no. 95-3769. Bethesda, MD: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 1995.
13. Ross H, Gavin D, Skinner H. Diagnostic validity of the MAST and the Alcohol Dependence Scale in the assessment of DSM-III alcohol disorders. J Stud Alcohol. 1990;51:506-513.
14. Kasser C, Geller A, Howell E, Wartenberg A. Detoxification: principles and protocols. American Society of Addiction Medicine, 2004. Available at http://www.asam.org/publ/detoxification.htm. Accessed November 20, 2004.
15. Eggers V, Tio J, Neumann T, et al. Blood alcohol concentration for monitoring ethanol treatment to prevent alcohol withdrawal in the intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med. 2002;28:1475-1482.
16. Breuer JP, Neumann T, Heinz A, Cox WJ, Spies C. [The alcoholic patient in the daily routine.] Wien Klin Wochenschr. 2003;115:618-633.
17. Ewing J. Detecting alcoholism: the CAGE questionnaire. JAMA. 1984;252:1905-1907.
18. Reed DN, Saxe A, Montanez M, et al. Use of a single question to screen trauma patients for alcohol dependence. J Trauma. 2005;59:619-623.
19. Grossman RF, Fein A. Evidence-based assessment of diagnostic tests for ventilator-associated pneumonia. Chest. 2000;117:177S-181S.
20. Alcon A, Fabregas N, Torres A. Hospital-acquired pneumonia: etiologic considerations. Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2003;17:679-695.
21. Cook D. Ventilator associated pneumonia: perspectives on the burden of illness. Intensive Care Med. 2000;26:S31-37.
22. Fahy BG, Sivaraman V. Current concepts in neurocritical care. Anesthesiol Clin North America. 2002;20:441-462.
23. Wanek S, Mayberry JC. Blunt thoracic trauma: flail chest, pulmonary contusion, and blast injury. Critical Care Clin. 2004;20:71-81.
24. Daeppen JB, Gache P, Landry U, et al. Symptom-triggered vs. fixed-schedule doses of benzodiazepine for alcohol withdrawal: a randomized treatment trial. Arch Intern Med. 2002;162:1117-1121.
25. Puz CA, Stokes SJ. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome: assessment and treatment with the use of the Clinical Institute of Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-revised. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2005;17:297-304.
26. DiPaula B, Tommasello A, Solounias B, McDuff D. An evaluation of intravenous ethanol in hospitalized patients. J Subst Abuse Treat. 1998;15:437-442.
27. Craft PP, Foil MB, Cunningham PR, Patselas PC, Long-Stryder BM, Collier MS. Intravenous ethanol for alcohol detoxification in trauma patient. South Med J. 1994;87:47-54.
28. Rosenbaum M, McCarty T. Alcohol prescription by surgeons in the prevention and treatment of delirium tremens: historic and current practice. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2002;24:257-259.