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Tag ICU Acquired Weakness
CCC Critical Care compendium 340

ICU Acquired Weakness (ICUAW)

ICU Acquired Weakness (ICUAW) includes critical illness myopathy (CIM); critical illness polyneuropathy (CIP), or a mixture of both (myopathy is typically predominant); very common in the mechanically ventilated (25-60% in those mechanically ventilated for > 7 days)