A construction worker with recent confusion, disorientation, and somnolence.

McMullin, Nolan; Queen, John R.

doi:10.3949/ccjm.71.10.809

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“…CIWA-At and CIWA-AD scores, therefore, seem to have real clinical utility in predicting severe alcohol withdrawal and providing guidance about the need for benzodiazepine medication. In recent literature, however, there has been some debate on what scores constitute a flag for treating alcohol or sedative withdrawal with benzodiazepines, with scores from 10 or higher (Kraemer et al, 2003) or from 20 or higher (McMullin & Queen, 2004) being cited as a threshold for withdrawal medication.…”

Section: Alcohol and Sedative Withdrawalmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contemporary issues in the evaluation and management of alcohol- and drug-related crises.

Trezza¹,

Scheft²

2009

Behavioral Emergencies: An Evidence-Based Resource for Evaluating and Managing Risk of Suicide, Violence, and Victimization.

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Trezza and Popp (1998) sought to delineate the key substance-induced emergency situations a clinician might face and to detail appropriate interventions, both medical and behavioral. A subsequent article (Trezza & Popp, 2000) examined the potential for violence and self-harm in the patient using substances. The purposes of this chapter are to update those reviews with new evidence-based information on the management of alcohol-and druginduced emergency situations and to call attention to new issues in the field of substance abuse triage.Substance abuse is an issue in a large number of emergency department (ED) presentations. For instance, Rockett, Putnam, Jia, and Smith (2006) found that overall use of eight targeted substances was 56% for women and We, the chapter authors, thank our colleague Susan Vickory, RN, for helpful assistance with the literature review of this chapter and for help with training in the clinical use of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment Scale for Alcohol instruments.

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Section: Alcohol and Sedative Withdrawalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These symptoms can be absent in mild alcohol withdrawal and are generally poor predictors of worsening AWS. Absence of these symptoms can be particularly true in patients who have been using other substances (McMullin &. Queen, 2004).…”

Section: Alcohol and Sedative Withdrawalmentioning

confidence: 99%