Clonidine in the Treatment of Alcohol Withdrawal in the Intensive Care Unit

Overview

Journal Br J Anaesth

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Anesthesiology

Date 1992 Jan 1

PMID 1739547

Citations 13

Authors

P C Ip Yam

A Forbes

W J Kox

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Abstract

We present two cases of patients with a past history of alcohol abuse admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for treatment of respiratory problems, after multiple trauma and after sub-total colectomy, respectively. In both patients, features of alcohol withdrawal were prominent after sedation had been discontinued. Both were treated successfully with an infusion of clonidine.

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