Response and Clinical Outcome of Critically Ill Children with Guillain Barre Syndrome admitted to PICU of Children’s Hospital Lahore
| العنوان: | Response and Clinical Outcome of Critically Ill Children with Guillain Barre Syndrome admitted to PICU of Children’s Hospital Lahore |
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| المؤلفون: | Muhammad Sarwar, Nighat Rashid, Ghazala Shaffqat, Fareeha Kausar, Umer Waqar Azeem, Anila Jamil |
| المصدر: | Pakistan Postgraduate Medical Journal. 31:37-41 |
| بيانات النشر: | Postgraduate Medical Institute, Lahore General Hospital, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy, Mechanical ventilation, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Weakness, Guillain-Barre syndrome, business.industry, Critically ill, medicine.medical_treatment, Retrospective cohort study, medicine.disease, Acute motor axonal neuropathy, Intensive care unit, law.invention, law, Medicine, medicine.symptom, business |
| الوصف: | Objective: To analyze patients with Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) requiring intensive care unit (ICU) admission, their course, response to treatment and outcome. Methods: A retrospective study conducted at ICU of The Children’s Hospital Lahore in 194 children with diagnosis of GBS from June 2018 to May 2020. Demographic profile, clinical features, treatment, duration of mechanical ventilation, length of ICU stay and outcome was noted. Results: Mean age of children was 5.95 ± 3.1 years with male predominance 136 (70 %). Major proportion were in range of 1-5 years 93(47.9%). Mean duration of ICU stay was 21.3±34.4 days. Out of 194 patients 125(64%) received IVIGs while 112 (57.7%) required mechanical ventilation because of rapidly progressive weakness within 24 hours of admission and those who remained on mechanical ventilation for longer period showed AMSAN (Acute motor sensory axonal neuropathy) type of GBS ( p value |
| تدمد: | 2710-1924 2079-5858 |
| DOI: | 10.51642/ppmj.v31i01.364 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::3853b0a0e79dd270a35d772d902018d7 https://doi.org/10.51642/ppmj.v31i01.364 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........3853b0a0e79dd270a35d772d902018d7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 27101924 20795858 |
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| DOI: | 10.51642/ppmj.v31i01.364 |