Impact of a Divided Phenobarbital Load and Taper Compared With Lorazepam Symptom Triggered Therapy in Hospitalized Patients.

This study is novel because of the broad application of a phenobarbital order set across multiple levels of care and patient admission diagnoses. A risk targeted split load intravenous phenobarbital order set can safely be administered to patients with fewer escalations of care, seizures, delirium tremens, and respiratory care escalation.