Neuromuscular Diseases in Intensive Care

Guillain-Barre syndrome and myasthenia gravis are common in the intensive care unit (ICU), and are not always easy to diagnose in the emergency department. The short-term risk is the occurrence of respiratory muscle paralysis, which must be monitored by repeated measurement of vital capacity, and th...

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Published inInternational Journal For Multidisciplinary Research Vol. 5; no. 5
Main Authors -, Yahya Lahrichi, -, Ali Derkaoui, -, Ibrahim Bechri, -, Abdelkrim A Shimi, -, Mohammed Khatouf
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 02.10.2023
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Summary:Guillain-Barre syndrome and myasthenia gravis are common in the intensive care unit (ICU), and are not always easy to diagnose in the emergency department. The short-term risk is the occurrence of respiratory muscle paralysis, which must be monitored by repeated measurement of vital capacity, and the existence of respiratory impairment requires transfer to intensive care. Apart from specific therapeutic options (plasma exchange, intravenous immunoglobulins and anticholinesterase agents), management is mainly symptomatic. Our work is a retrospective study, concerning 23 cases of neuromuscular diseases in the ICU from a period from 2018 to 2022. The various epidemiological, Clinical, paraclinical, Therapeutic and evolutionary data were collected from the files of the intensive Care Department A1 of the Hassan II University Hospital of Fez.
ISSN:2582-2160
2582-2160
DOI:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i05.7103