Twenty-Eight-Day-Long Delirium Tremens

• Main Authors: Paritosh Kafle MBBS (Author), Amrendra Kumar Mandal MBBS (Author), Binav Shrestha MBBS (Author), Bikash Bhattrai MBBS (Author), Manjul Bhandari MBBS (Author), Shambhu Bhagat MBBS (Author), Bijoy Shankar Kar MBBS (Author), Dikshya Sharma MBBS (Author), Vijay Gayam MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Refractory alcohol withdrawal delirium is uncommon in day-to-day clinical practice. This case report presents a rare case of delirium tremens of unusually long duration that was complicated by the difficulty in tapering down benzodiazepines despite adding midazolam drip as well as phenobarbitone to...