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Breve Dulce

Session: Breve Dulce II - Stacked Session

Drugs You Should Be Using: Phenobarbital for Severe Alcohol Withdrawal

Monday, April 24, 2023
11:05 AM – 11:15 AM CST
Location: Salon ABC-3rd Floor
CE: 0.25 Credits
Addiction Medicine / Controlled Substance Prescribing Pharmacology Recorded Session
Disclosure(s):
Paul S. Jansson, MD, MS, FAAEM: No financial relationships to disclose
Traditional management of severe alcohol withdrawal involves repeated dosing of benzodiazepines until symptoms are well controlled. However, this approach is labor-intensive, inexact, and risks over-sedation and delirium. Phenobarbital avoids most of these risks and provides a quick "one-and-done" approach to rapidly and safely treat severe alcohol withdrawal with a more favorable safety profile. In this lecture, the speaker will describe how to safely integrate phenobarbital into your practice.


Learning Objectives:

  • After this session, the learner will be able to describe the unique pharmacology and how if differs from benzodiazepines.
  • After this session, the learner will be able to appropriately dose phenobarbital for the patient with severe alcohol withdrawal.
  • After this session, the learner will be able to describe appropriate indications and contraindications for the use of phenobarbital in severe alcohol withdrawal.