Problem based review: Alcohol-use disorders on the Acute Medical Unit

Acute Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 101-106

  Reynolds, T ^a   Cooke, F ^a   Murch, Nick ^b  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CARBAMAZEPINE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLOMETHIAZOLE; CLONIDINE; DIAZEPAM; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; OLANZAPINE; THIAMINE DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATAXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHILD SAFETY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFUSION; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DETOXIFICATION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; FACE ERYTHEMA; FAMILY SERVICE; FEMALE; GAZE PARALYSIS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART PALPITATION; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INSOMNIA; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOSIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; SKIN ABRASION; SWEAT; TACHYPNEA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WITHDRAWAL SEIZURE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL DELIRIUM; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL SEIZURES; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ALCOHOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865313449     PISSN: 17474884     EISSN: 17474892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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