What is your medication of choice when considering outpatient alcohol withdrawal management (diazepam vs chlordiazepoxide vs lorazepam)?
For your recommended medication, are you doing a scheduled set dose, or is it primarily symptom-driven?
Answer from: at Community Practice
While benzodiazepines such as chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, and lorazepam remain the mainstay of treatment for acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS), their use in the outpatient setting is generally inappropriate for patients with Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)&md...
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at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine In my experience, the success of outpatient tapers...
I like to reference the ASAM alcohol withdrawal treatment guidelines which are very comprehensive and good about all the clinical and social considerations to make when deciding if ambulatory withdrawal is an option for patients (given their medical co-morbidities, history of prior severe/complicate...
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at Providence Health & Services - Oregon/St Vincent Hospital and Medical Center This is very helpful, thank you! As you mentioned,...
at Maine Medical Center Outpatient Adult Psychiatry Thank you for this. Could you be more specific abo...
In my experience, the success of outpatient tapers...