Give or take? Intravenous immunoglobulin or plasma exchange for Guillain-Barré syndrome

Critical Care

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Hughes, Richard A C ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA VOLUME; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

GUILLAIN-BARRE SYNDROME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, INTRAVENOUS; PLASMA EXCHANGE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84865120150     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc10312     Document Type: Note

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