… As alcohol use is highly prevalent in trauma patients, we hypothesized that a significant
proportion of hospitalized trauma patients would demonstrate alcohol withdrawal (AW). …

… openly and candidly by the patient with a history of chronic alcoholism. The nurse's early
request for orders to treat the patient according to the alcohol withdrawal protocol is also vital to …

… to 40% of surgical trauma patients use alcohol at rates … alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS)
has been estimated at 31% for surgical trauma patients and 16% for all postsurgical patients. …

… representation, the PAWSS scale may not apply to trauma victims. In … all trauma patients
and can be generalizable, we designed our study to identify the risk of AWS utilizing the Trauma …

… A total of 6,431 trauma patients aged 15 years or younger with an ISS of <16 were treated
at our facility between July 1999 and February 2004. Of this group, 55 (0.9%) developed AWS. …

… treatment of trauma patients at elevated risk of alcohol withdrawal syndrome would further
reduce the incidence of adverse outcomes associated with alcohol withdrawal syndrome in …

… Multiplying the one-day inpatient cost to length of hospital stay including intensive care (ICU)
day would be the estimated cost of a trauma patient with AWS. We compared the two …

… This study reports current rates of AWS in hospitalized trauma patients using national
data, the risk factors for AWS as well as the incidence of AWS in high-risk populations. …

… Because the proportion of trauma patients developing alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS)
is low, AWS risk conditions have not been precisely delineated. We aimed to create …

… Trauma patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome experience a high … alcohol is
common in patients suffering traumatic injury ( 1–3 ), increasing the risk of alcohol withdrawal …