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1. Symptom-triggered benzodiazepine therapy for alcohol withdrawal syndrome in the emergency department: a comparison with the standard fixed dose benzodiazepine regimen

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Tariq Islam, Eugene M Cassidy, Paula Bradshaw, Chidozie Onovo, and Iomhar O'Sullivan

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Male, medicine.drug_class, Treatment outcome, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Fixed dose, Drug Administration Schedule, Statistics, Nonparametric, Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium, Benzodiazepines, medicine, Humans, Clinical decision, Benzodiazepine, Chi-Square Distribution, business.industry, General Medicine, Emergency department, Length of Stay, medicine.disease, humanities, Regimen, Treatment Outcome, Anti-Anxiety Agents, Anesthesia, Alcohol withdrawal syndrome, Emergency Medicine, Female, Emergency Service, Hospital, business, Chi-squared distribution
Abstract

The aim of the study was to compare symptom-triggered and standard benzodiazepine regimens for the treatment of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in an emergency department clinical decision unit. The authors found that the symptom-triggered approach reduced cumulative benzodiazepine dose and length of stay.

Published
2011
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2. Lesson of the week: Insulin as a substance of misuse in a patient with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus

Author

Domhnall J O'Halloran, Eugene M Cassidy, and Siobhán Barry

Subjects
Autoimmune disease, medicine.medical_specialty, Chemotherapy, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Insulin, General Engineering, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Bioinformatics, Endocrinology, Poor control, Internal medicine, Insulin dependent diabetes, Immunopathology, medicine, Etiology, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Young adult, business, General Environmental Science
Abstract

Doctors should be alert to the possibility of insulin misuse, and should consider psychological evaluation, in an insulin dependent diabetic patient with poor control

Published
1999
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