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ReviewNeurocritical care2015

Emergency Neurological Life Support: Acute Non-traumatic Weakness.

Oliver Flower, Mark S Wainwright, Anna Finley Caulfield

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Review in Neurocritical care, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Oliver FlowerDepartment of Intensive Care, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia. oliver.flower@gmail.com.
Mark S WainwrightDepartments of Neurology and Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
Anna Finley CaulfieldDepartment of Neurology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acute non-traumatic weakness may be life threatening if it involves the respiratory muscles or is associated with autonomic dysfunction. Most patients presenting with acute muscle weakness have a worsening neurological disorder that requires a rapid, systematic evaluation, and detailed neurological exam to localize the disorder. Urgent laboratory tests and neuroimaging are needed in many patients to make the diagnosis. Because acute weakness is a common presenting sign of neurological emergencies, it was chosen as an Emergency Neurological Life Support protocol. Causes of acute non-traumatic weakness are discussed by both presenting clinical signs and anatomical location. For each diagnosis, key features of the history, examination, investigations, and treatment are outlined in the included tables.

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Acute DiseaseMuscle WeaknessNervous System DiseasesEmergency TreatmentHumansLife Support CareAcute weaknessNeuromuscular weaknessRespiratory failure

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PMID26438455

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