Treatment of delirium tremens with intravenous injections of 20% Decholin solution
- Issue: Vol 26, No 12 (1930)
- Pages: 1250-1250
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/kazanmedj/article/view/59037
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/kazmj59037
- ID: 59037
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Abstracts. Neuropathology and Psychiatry. Prof. de Crinis (Monatschr. f Ps. Bd. 76, 1930) believes that delirium tremens is the result of damage to the detoxifying function of the liver, and not the result of a direct effect of alcohol on the brain. Therefore, in 17 cases he treated delirium tremens with intravenous injections of a 20% Decholin solution, which increased the excretory capacity of the liver, and in all cases with one or two injections, each 10 kb. see, stopped seizures within no more than 8 hours. Compared with the usual duration of delirium tremens of 3-5 days with a mortality rate of 9%, this result is undoubtedly a great success.