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Intensive care unit-acquired weakness.

Richard D RD Griffiths and Jesse B JB Hall

Audio, Transactions of the IRE Profession... 38(3):779-87 (2010) PMID 20048676

Severe weakness is being recognized as a complication that impacts significantly on the pace and degree of recovery and return to former functional status of patients who survive the organ failures that mandate life-support therapies such as mechanical ventilation. Despite the apparent importance of this problem, much remains to be understood about its incidence, causes, prevention, and treatment.

DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181cc4b53
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