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Neuromuscular Disorders in the Intensive Care Unit
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Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) with neuromuscular disorders are either admitted for an acute life-threatening disease of new onset such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, or for a complication of a severe pre-existing condition such as muscular dystrophy, or they develop a neuromuscular disorder as a consequence of critical illness, i.e. so-called "ICU-associated weakness." This chapter provides an introduction to the specific requirement of these patients needed to improve their outcomes...
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- Publisher:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Pages:
- 243-248
- Host title:
- Neuromuscular Disorders
- Publication date:
- 2011-09-06
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- Source identifiers:
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436832
- ISBN-10:
- 0470654562
- ISBN-13:
- 9780470654569
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- 2011
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