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GENERAL APPROACH Unilateral or bilateral weakness Upper vs Lower motor neuron lesion Brain Spinal cord Peripheral nerves NMJ Muscles INTRODUCTION CUBICLE wheelchair walking aids hand weights INFUSIONS IVIG (GB, MG, vasculitis) VENTILATOR high level of pressure support (global weakness) PEEP…

Chris Nickson
January 30, 2019

Acute Non-Traumatic Weakness

Acute non-traumatic weakness may occur as a result of a wide variety of underlying etiologies, many of which are life-threatening

Chris Nickson
January 5, 2019

Waxing and Waning Weakness

A 50 year old Chinese female presents with severe weakness. She has a history of previous similar episodes that self-resolved. What's going on?

Paul Young
November 1, 2018