Acute anxiety and its therapy

Acute anxiety is a quite common event for a general practitioner to solve. Anxiety could be of a various ethiology and the treatment should be based on the ethiology. It is important to differentiate panic attacks from general anxiety so as panic disorder treatment differs specifically. The drug of choice for parenteral application for acute anxiety seems to be diazepam in the Czech republic conditions and the most convenient drug for oral administration is alprazolam.