Use of propofol as adjuvant therapy in refractory delirium tremens

Delirium tremens is recognized as a potentially fatal and debilitating complication of alcohol withdrawal. Use of sedatives, particularly benzodiazepines, is the cornerstone of therapy for delirium tremens. But sometimes, very heavy doses of benzodiazepines are required to control delirious symptoms. We are reporting one such case of delirium tremens, which required very heavy doses of benzodiazepines and was ultimately controlled by using infusion of propofol. Thus propofol should always be considered as an option to treat patients with resistant delirium tremens.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Industrial Psychiatry Journal

• Publication date

  2010-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.4103/0972-6748.77641PMID 21694794PMCID 3105562
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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