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Return Encounters in Emergency Department Patients Treated with Phenobarbital Versus Benzodiazepines for Alcohol Withdrawal

REBEL EM

1, 2 Phenobarbital has been studied as an alternative or adjunct to benzodiazepines with encouraging results, but primarily among inpatient services. CIWA scores or some other more universal diagnostic tool for alcohol withdrawal were not routinely used s o we have no idea why one patient got more than another.

Disease 95
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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease. Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology , December 2006, Vol. In a worst-case scenario, gadolinium-based contrast agents could wind up in the same unenviable position as other pharmaceuticals. "I Giles, U.K.

Disease 290