Direct muscle stimulation in acute quadriplegic myopathy

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 665-673

  Rich, Mark M ^a   Bird, Shawn J ^a   Raps, Eric C ^a   McCluskey, Leo F ^a   Teener, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

critical illness; electrophysiology; myopathy; polyneuropathy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MYOPATHY; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; QUADRIPLEGIA;

EID: 0030939258     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199706)20:6<665::AID-MUS2>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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