scholarly journals Critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP) in neurological early rehabilitation: clinical and neurophysiological features

BMC Neurology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone B. Schmidt ◽  
Jens D. Rollnik
Author(s):  
Didar Arslan ◽  
Rıza Dinçer Yıldızdaş ◽  
Özden Özgür Horoz ◽  
Nagehan Aslan ◽  
Yasemin Çoban ◽  
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2010 ◽  
Vol 121 (7) ◽  
pp. e31
Author(s):  
Yumiko Kugio ◽  
Toshio Shimizu ◽  
Yumi Fujimaki ◽  
Yasuhiro Kagamihara

Author(s):  
Priya S. Dhawan ◽  
Jennifer A. Tracy

Acquired weakness in critically ill patients is common, affecting between one-third to one-half of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Exposure to simultaneous stressors such as metabolic derangements, fluid and electrolyte shifts, infection, catabolic stress, and medications put patients in the ICU at risk for damage to both nerve and skeletal muscle with substantial and often lasting morbidity. Critical illness polyneuropathy is a length-dependent, axonal peripheral neuropathy occurring in patients in the ICU and unrelated to the primary illness. Critical illness myopathy is an ICU-associated muscle disorder occurring independently of denervation and uniquely identified by electrophysiologic and histologic characteristics.


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