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CIWA-Ar Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol scale
Assesses severity of alcohol withdrawal and helps guide management.
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Alcohol use disorder
FRAMES method for brief intervention
Adapted by Best Practice topic authors from: Bien TH et al. Addiction. 1993 Mar;88(3):315-35
Alcohol use disorder
Summary of medications, their mechanism of action, and the number needed to treat to reduce heavy drinking and to achieve abstinence
Created by BMJ Knowledge Centre with information from: Anton RF et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2020;180(5):728-36; Johnson BA et al. Lancet. 2003;361(9370):1677-85; Winslow BT et al. Am Fam Physician. 2016;93(6):457-65; Lyon J. JAMA. 2017;317(22):2267-9; Murphy CE et al. Addiction. 2022; 117(2):271-81.
Alcohol use disorder
Nonpharmacologic approaches can be useful for many patients with alcohol use disorder, as they provide strategies to help patients avoid returning to alcohol use, enhance self-efficacy, and reduce the impact of stressors that can precipitate return to use
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Alcohol use disorder
Treatment overview
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Alcoholic liver disease
Liver biopsy showing the typical histologic changes of alcoholic steatosis (fatty liver)
From the collection of Dr McClain; used with permission
Alcoholic liver disease
Liver biopsy showing the typical histologic changes of alcoholic steatohepatitis
From the collection of Dr McClain; used with permission
Alcoholic liver disease
Liver biopsy showing alcoholic cirrhosis
From the collection of Dr McClain; used with permission
Wernicke encephalopathy
Fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) MRI brain of patient with Wernicke encephalopathy
Ramulu P, Moghekar A, Chaudhry V, et al, Wernicke's encephalopathy, Neurology 2002;59:846; used with permission
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