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Screens hospitalized patients for complicated alcohol withdrawal (seizures, delirium tremens).

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Elie Harmouche, MD, is a medical toxicology fellow at the department of emergency medicine at New York University. He was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, and he received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut. He completed a residency in emergency medicine at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, MI and served as chief resident in his final year, followed by fellowship in toxicology at NYU Langone/Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City. His areas of interest include toxicology, addiction and substance use, simulation medicine, resuscitation, and critical care.

Elie Harmouche, MD

The Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS) predicts the severity risk of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. 

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