Assistant professor of psychiatry, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA.
Dr. Ponce Martinez has no financial relationships with companies related to this material.
Dr. Ponce Martinez highlights the need to identify and manage alcohol withdrawal in psychiatric settings, underscoring the use of the CIWA-Ar scale for monitoring symptom progression. While benzodiazepines remain the primary treatment, she reviews alternative treatment strategies and tells us which patients are so high risk that they must be transferred to a medical unit for care.