UTILITY OF CIWA - A IN ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL ASSESSMENT

Fourty four patients of DSM-III-R diagnosis of alcohol withdrawal syndrome were assessed on CIWA-A scale. Most common withdrawal symptoms were tremors, sweating, arvdety, agitation, headache and flushing. Mostly symptoms subsided within four days. However, in half of the patients the symptoms like t...

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Autores principales: Manikant, S., Tripathi, B.M., Chavan, B.S.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2982972/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776143
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description Fourty four patients of DSM-III-R diagnosis of alcohol withdrawal syndrome were assessed on CIWA-A scale. Most common withdrawal symptoms were tremors, sweating, arvdety, agitation, headache and flushing. Mostly symptoms subsided within four days. However, in half of the patients the symptoms like tremors, tactile disturbances, anxiety and headache persisted even beyond eight days. Usefulness of CIWA-A in alcohol withdrawal assessment is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29829722011-07-20 UTILITY OF CIWA - A IN ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL ASSESSMENT Manikant, S. Tripathi, B.M. Chavan, B.S. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Fourty four patients of DSM-III-R diagnosis of alcohol withdrawal syndrome were assessed on CIWA-A scale. Most common withdrawal symptoms were tremors, sweating, arvdety, agitation, headache and flushing. Mostly symptoms subsided within four days. However, in half of the patients the symptoms like tremors, tactile disturbances, anxiety and headache persisted even beyond eight days. Usefulness of CIWA-A in alcohol withdrawal assessment is discussed. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2982972/ /pubmed/21776143 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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UTILITY OF CIWA - A IN ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL ASSESSMENT
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title_fullStr UTILITY OF CIWA - A IN ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL ASSESSMENT
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title_short UTILITY OF CIWA - A IN ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL ASSESSMENT
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