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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
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...
Answer from: at Community Practice
Working at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, we used Librium. It’s not as addictive as Valium, and you can easily taper a lot of people with a scheduled order of 50 mg PO TID, then BID, then, on the third day, give them one dose. So, a total of a 3-day detox. More complex, obviously, you&rsq...
In my experience, the success of outpatient tapers...
If a patient has an alcohol use disorder that led ...