Patterns of neurophysiological abnormality in prolonged critical illness

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 801-807

  Coakley, J H ^a   Nagendran, K ^a   Yarwood, G D ^a   Honavar, M ^a   Hinds, C J ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Drug therapy; Multiple organ failure; Neuromuscular complications; Sepsis

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEUROPATHY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOPATHY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SEPSIS;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS;

EID: 0031665229     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050669     Document Type: Article

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