[Critical illness polyneuropathy--a neuromuscular complication in the intensive care patients].
Critical illness polyneuropathy is a serious, but potentially reversible, complication following the treatment of severe infection and respiratory failure in the intensive care unit. A case of prolonged tetraparesis after severe infection and ventilatory support in a middle-aged woman is described.
Dreijer
Bjørn
B
Operations- og anaestesiologisk afdeling Y, klinisk neurofysiologisk afdeling, Amtssygehuset i Glostrup.
Kledal
Susanne
S
Jennum
Poul Jørgen
PJ
D003422:Critical Care; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011115:Polyneuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011782:Quadriplegia / Q000209:etiology*; D018746:Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology