• Childs Nerv Syst · Oct 2006

    EMG and duration of ventilatory support in children with Guillain-Barre syndrome.

    • Fernando Ortiz-Corredor, Jorge Díaz-Ruiz, and Alvaro Izquierdo-Bello.
    • Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Instituto de Ortopedia Infantil Roosevelt, Bogota, Colombia. fortizc@unal.edu.co
    • Childs Nerv Syst. 2006 Oct 1; 22 (10): 1328-31.

    RationalePredicting length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) in children with Guillain-Barre syndrome may help decision-making at admission.Materials And MethodsBetween 1996 and 2003, we attended to 30 children with Guillain-Barre syndrome who required ventilatory support in ICU. We prospectively collected different variables that could potentially predict prolonged length of stay and ventilatory support in ICU.ConclusionUsing Cox proportional hazard analysis we found that lack of electrical excitability was the best predictor.

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