by Meghan Spyres You take the perilous sign out of a 55-year-old patient with alcohol use disorder (AUD) who came to the ED intoxicated. “He’s just metabolizing” your colleague tells you. A few hours go by and he is now awake and asking to leave. The nurse road tests him and he can walk, but […]
Tox and Hound – The Ethics & Etiquette of Just Standing There
by Andrew Stolbach This is one of two related, and complementary posts as part of a special series about ethanol in the ER. The first part can be found here. Old-fashioned physician wisdom teaches us everything we need to know about managing intoxicated patients. I have a cloth-bound edition of Austin Flint’s […]