1. Evaluation and treatment of coexisting medical conditions will help stabilize the patient and improve rehabilitation. Medical conditions should be stabilized and psychiatric illness such as depression, anxiety, and psychosis should be treated in order to optimize long term treatment outcomes.
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2. Smooth transition into long term pharmacologic and psychosocial treatment will improve outcomes. Patients should be started in long term treatment prior to discharge fro inpatient units, and outpatients should have long term treatment integrated into the withdrawal treatment program.
CURRENT LESSON OBJECTIVES
- How does alcohol's acute effects + use tolerance relate to alcohol withdrawal syndrome?
- Cite the diagnostic criteria for alcohol withdrawal.
- What are the diagnostic criteria for alcohol withdrawal delirium (delirium tremens)?
- What are the risk factors for more severe withdrawal symptoms like seizures and DTs?
- Describe the time course of withdrawal symptoms.
- List indications for hospitalization for inpatient alcohol withdrawal treatment.
- Describe the rational for the types of withdrawal treatments and the medications used.
- Describe a method used to individually adjust drug dose to treat withdrawal.
- What are 2 important medical complications seen in withdrawal and how do you treat them?
- What are the symptoms of an alcohol hangover and its possible causes and treatment?
- What are 2 important aspects of treatment following withdrawal?
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