The Annals of pharmacotherapy
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Clinical decision support tools (CDSTs) on personal digital assistants (PDAs) and online databases assist healthcare practitioners who make decisions about dietary supplements. ⋯ Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database achieved significantly higher scope, completeness, and composite scores compared with other dietary supplement PDA CDSTs in this study. There was no difference between the PDA and online databases for Lexi-Natural and Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database, whereas online versions of AltMedDex and Natural Standard were significantly better than their PDA counterparts.
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Case Reports
Dexmedetomidine infusion as adjunctive therapy to benzodiazepines for acute alcohol withdrawal.
To report a case of alcohol withdrawal and delirium tremens successfully treated with adjunctive dexmedetomidine. ⋯ In patients with delirium tremens, dexmedetomidine should be considered as an option for primary treatment. This case illustrates the need for further studies to investigate other potential uses for dexmedetomidine.