Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens

Management of delirium tremens.

Delirium tremens is recognized as a potentially fatal and debilitating complication of ethanol withdrawal. Research thus far has primarily focused on the prevention of delirium tremens.

Lamotrigine augmentation in delirium tremens.

INTRODUCTION Delirium tremens (DT) is most severe neurological complication of alcohol withdrawal with high mortality rate. DT is related to an altered balance of excitatory and inhibitory amino-acid neurotransmitters, which is basically due to upregulation of glutaminergic neurotransmission induced by chronic ethanol exposure. Lamotrigine (LTG) is believed to act by reducing excitatory glutama...

Treatment of Delirium Tremens by Quinine

complaining of want of sleep ; although fidgetty and nervous, he is nearly free from hallucinations. Ordered a calomel purge, quinine gr. 12, every 4th hour, and 15 tinct. opii. with camphor mixture every 5th hour until sleep is procured. On the night of the 9th he slept at short intervals and has not been violent. On the lltli he has on the whole improved. The calomel purge was repeated. On th...

Repetitive Myocardial Infarctions Secondary to Delirium Tremens

Delirium tremens develops in a minority of patients undergoing acute alcohol withdrawal; however, that minority is vulnerable to significant morbidity and mortality. Historically, benzodiazepines are given intravenously to control withdrawal symptoms, although occasionally a more substantial medication is needed to prevent the devastating effects of delirium tremens, that is, propofol. We repor...

Acute Alcohol Withdrawal and Delirium Tremens