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Delirium Tremens and Cardiovascular Collapse: A Case Report

[ ISSN : 2473-0688 ]

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Received: 02-Feb-2016

Accepted: 07-Mar-2016

Published: 08-Mar-2016

Case Report | Volume 2 - Issue 1 | Article DOI :

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Musa Kaya¹, Arif Duran¹, Mansur Kursad Erkuran¹, and Tarık Ocak²*

¹ Abant Izzet Baysal University, ?zzet Baysal Training and Research Hospital, Emergency Medical Training Clinic, Turkey
² ?stanbul Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Emergency Medical Training Clinic, Turkey

Corresponding Author:

Arif Duran, Department of Emergency Medicine, Abant Izzet Baysal University Medical Faculty, Turkey, Email: drarifduran@gmail.com

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Delirium Tremens; Cardiovascular Collapse; Death

Abstract

Acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome leads to fluctuating changes in mental status. It also may cause cardiovascular collapse and death occasionally. We report a patient who dies due to cardiovascular complications of delirium tremens. Early clinical interventions such as hydration, sedation, preventing seizures by using benzodiazepines [1], infusion of dextrose and thiamine can be lifesaver. Hospitalization to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) must be provided immediately. Death is sometimes inevitable even if physicians perform an entire multidisciplinary clinical intervention. In this case, the situation of the patient, who suffers from alcohol withdrawal, worsens rapidly and he dies in two days during the follow-up in ICU.

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Kaya M, Duran A, Erkuran MK and Ocak T. Delirium Tremens and Cardiovascular Collapse: A Case Report. SM J Case Rep. 2016; 2(1): 1021.