[The clinical picture, pathogenesis and intensive therapy of severe forms of alcoholic delirium].

Combined clinical and laboratory investigation of 94 patients provided a basis for classifying the alcoholic delirium into complete and incomplete forms according to its development stereotype and into "wet" and "dry" forms in terms of its somatic, autonomic and neurological disorders. The major role of acid-base balance disorders was revealed and the importance of goal-directed differentiated correction therapy for the rise in efficiency in treating patients with severe alcoholic delirium is stressed.