Hospital Medicine

Neuromuscular

Questions discussed in this category

What is the stepwise investigation of patients suspected of inflammatory myopathy?

Especially in an inpatient setting when EMG is not immediately available.

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How do you approach determining appropriateness for extubation in a patient with acute respiratory failure in the setting of known chronic neuromuscular disease?

1 Answer available

Is there a role for inpatient EMG/NCS in patients who present with rhabdomyolysis with unclear etiology?

1 Answer available

Under which clinical scenarios do you consider an inpatient EMG?

1 Answer available

When do you redose IVIG in GBS patients who were under-treated and are worsening?

Is there any data supporting this?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Lancet Neurol, 2021 Mar 17

Second intravenous immunoglobulin dose in patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome with poor prognosis (SID-GBS): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial.

Chest, 2010-05

Extubation of patients with neuromuscular weakness: a new management paradigm.

Chest, 1996 Dec

Criteria for extubation and tracheostomy tube removal for patients with ventilatory failure. A different approach to weaning.

Journal of critical care, 2011 Jan 26

Prevention of extubation failure in high-risk patients with neuromuscular disease.

Muscle & nerve, 2009-08

Clinical utility of electrodiagnostic studies in the inpatient setting.

J Neurol Sci, 2020 Jul 24

Time to diagnosis and factors affecting diagnostic delay in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Continuum (Minneap Minn), 2022 Dec 1

Inflammatory Myopathies.

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