Massive Thiamine Dosage in the Treatment of Acute Alcoholic Psychoses
- 1 December 1972
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 6 (4), 225-230
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00048677209159715
Abstract
An attempt has been made to demonstrate, using the admission and mortality statistics over three quinquennia from the one hospital, that the routine use of prompt massive intravenous thiamine is lifesaving in a significant number of patients suffering from alcoholic psychoses and that the former common cause of death was in fact an acute thiamine deficiency cardiomyopathy.Keywords
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- Acute Neuropsychiatric Complications of Chronic AlcoholismThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968