摘要：In medical practice, a particularly important therapeutic problem is the patient
with traumatic injuries developing ethanol withdrawal during hospitalization.
The management of such patients requires both a comprehensive approach in
terms of therapy and a very delicate one regarding issues of medical ethics and
social implications and costs. More medical schools, among which the ones in
France, the US, the UK, etc., opt for the administration of alcoholic solutions,
perfusable ones included, for preventing withdrawal symptoms. We consider that
currently the relevant Romanian protocols are inappropriate as they ignore the
fact that an addiction can be cured only if the patient is willing to and, even if
this is the case, alcohol dependence is unlikely to be cured. Therefore, we believe
that the preventive administration of certain alcoholic solutions in hospital would
be benefi cial both to the patient’s evolution and to the prevention of the social
implications of treating the alcohol withdrawal syndrome (AWS) in a trauma
center or intensive care unit.
关键词：alcohol withdrawal; social implications; alcohol addiction; alcohol
withdrawal in trauma services; benzodiazepines versus alcoholic solutions
