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Direct stimulation: a useful technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2008

E. Seghelini
E. Seghelini*
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Brescia, Istituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Spedali Civili, Italia
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Correspondence to: Elisa Seghelini, Istituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Spedali Civili, Piazzale Spedali Civili, 1 – 25125 Brescia, Italy. E-mail: Elisa.seghelini@tin.it; Tel: +39 0303995764; Fax: +39 0303995570
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Summary

Direct muscular stimulation is quick, simple, non-invasive and can be carried out at the patient’s bedside. More importantly, it is reliable even when the patients cannot cooperate or are comatose. From the small amount of data available, it seems to be as accurate as neuromuscular biopsy in diagnosing critical illness myopathy. It would therefore be advisable to use it in everyday clinical practice.

Keywords

MEASUREMENT AND MONITORINGCRITICAL CAREPOLYNEUROPATHYMUSCULAR DISEASESNEUROMUSCULAR DISEASESMUSCLE STIMULATION
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European Journal of Anaesthesiology , Volume 25 , Issue S42 , February 2008 , pp. 181 - 185
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Copyright © European Society of Anaesthesiology 2008

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