An individual who is admitted to an alcohol detoxification unit has had no alcohol intake for 3 days. On admission the patient is noted to have tremors, anxiety, insomnia, and disorientation accompanied by tachycardia and diaphoresis.
These signs and symptoms are characteristic of the syndrome known as: a. alcoholic hallucinosis.
b. alcohol-induced psychosis.
c. alcoholic seizure disorder.
d. alcohol withdrawal delirium.
Question 2
A nurse caring for a patient wonders how the patient's functioning has been evaluated in the past. To learn this, the nurse would look in the medical record on the DSM-IV-TR Axis:
a. I.
b. II.
c. IV.
d. V.
Bipolar disease. The term bipolar means “pertaining to two poles.” The individual with this form of
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