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J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
November 2024
HCA Healthcare, Nashville, TN 37203, USA.
Background: Alcohol abuse leads to millions of hospital admissions each year in the United States. Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is associated with several serious complications, including seizures, delirium tremens, and death. Benzodiazepines have been the mainstay of treatment for hospitalized patients with alcohol withdrawal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Brain Res
January 2025
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Nutrição e Saúde (PPGNS), Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Fortaleza, CE CEP 60.741-000, Brazil; Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Laboratório de Bioprospecção de Produtos Naturais e Biotecnologia (LBPNB), Campus CECITEC, Tauá, Ceará, CEP 60.660-000, Brazil. Electronic address:
Pharmacotherapy in Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (AWS), which is a mental disorder, generally involves benzodiazepines due to their action via GABA, but their side effects, such as excessive sedation, mental confusion and risk of dependence, are considerable. It is important to investigate the anxiolytic potential of plants such as Caryocar coriaceum, due to the presence of secondary metabolic compounds, such as isoquercitrin, capable of promoting the reduction of anxiety during AWS. We evaluated the anxiolytic-like potential of ethanolic extracts from the leaves (EEPL) and pulp (EEPP) of C.
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January 2025
Concord, N.C.
Acad Emerg Med
January 2025
Department of Emergency Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Introduction: Alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) is a common condition prompting emergency department (ED) presentation. However, there are limited recent, large-scale, robust data available on the incidence, admission, and medical treatment of AWS in the ED.
Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of ED presentations for AWS from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2023, using Epic Cosmos.
Seizure
January 2025
Peninsula School of medicine, University of Plymouth, Truro, United Kingdom; The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Electronic address:
Background: Epilepsy is one of the commonest neurological conditions worldwide and confers a significant mortality risk, partly driven by status epilepticus (SE). Terminating SE is the goal of pharmaceutical rescue therapies. This survey evaluates UK-based healthcare professionals' clinical practice and experience in community-based rescue therapy prescribing.
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