Have you tried to use phenobarbital for your ICU patients with alcohol withdrawal syndrome?Typically, we use benzodiazepines such as ativan to treat this.Although the empiric data is quite compelling to make the switch.I personally use phenobarbital more often than benzodiazepines these days.The main question of course is the dosing.This single-center, pre-post protocol implementation study is …

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