Neurologic complications in the intensive care unit.
Neurologic complications resulting from critical illness and intensive care unit therapies are common, but frequently unrecognized because these patients are often intubated, sedated, and, occasionally, receiving neuromuscular blocking agents. Neurologic complications are associated with an increased intensive care unit mortality. This article discusses central nervous system complications that are secondary to critical illness or to therapeutic interventions in the critically ill patient.
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Division of Critical Care Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, City University of New York, New York, USA.
Oropello
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Benjamin
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D002493:Central Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D016638:Critical Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods; D012307:Risk Factors; D015996:Survival Rate