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The CIWA scale is validated and has high inter-rater reliability. A randomized, double blind trial published in JAMA in 1994 [5] showed that management for alcohol withdrawal that was guided by the CIWA scale resulted in decreased treatment duration and total use of benzodiazepines. The goal of the CIWA scale is to provide an efficient and ...
Signs and symptoms of alcohol withdrawal occur primarily in the central nervous system. The severity of withdrawal can vary from mild symptoms such as insomnia, trembling, and anxiety to severe and life-threatening symptoms such as alcoholic hallucinosis, delirium tremens, and autonomic instability.
CIWA may refer to: California Immigrant Workers Association; Canadian Injured Workers Alliance; Catholic Institute of West Africa; Christmas Island Women's Association;
A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or visit (homecare).
AWHONN also publishes multiple evidence-based nursing guidelines for use by nurses caring for women and newborns. These evidence-based guidelines cover topics like fetal heart rate monitoring , labor induction , neonatal skin care, [ 4 ] care of the late preterm infant, [ 5 ] breastfeeding , HPV counseling, neonatal hyperbilirubinemia , nursing ...
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOMESTIC WORKER: CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND THE CAMPAIGN FOR FAIR LABOR STANDARDS (with related Policy Recommendations) By ARLENE M. ROBERTS, ESQ.
CIWA: Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol: CJD: Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: CK: creatine kinase (formerly CPK) CKD: chronic kidney disease: CKMB: MB isoenzyme of creatine kinase: Cl: chlorine clearance: CLABSI: central line-associated bloodstream infections, see central venous catheter: CLARE: contact lens acute red eye: CLL ...
The American Nurses Association (ANA) is a 501(c)(6) professional organization to advance and protect the profession of nursing. It started in 1896 as the Nurses Associated Alumnae and was renamed the American Nurses Association in 1911. [3] It is based in Silver Spring, Maryland [4] and Jennifer Mensik Kennedy [2] is the current president.