Wernicke encephalopathy is important because it's surprisingly common, potentially debilitating, and fully treatable. Some patients may present to the hospital due to Wernicke encephalopathy, while many others may develop this while in the ICU as an iatrogenic complication of criical care.
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very cool.
frightening , actually, to think how many patients may be suffering from varying degrees of thiamine deficiency.
in the ED… the alcoholic who is altered, ataxic, nystagmus. like everyone. might be Wernicke’s. and then the other 50%… the chronically ill, malnourished, others. It does almost make sense to just give 500 IV of thiamine to most if not all of our veery sick patients.
Paul Marik might love this pod.
thank you both.
tom