Five pearls for the dyspneic patient with Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Myasthenia Gravis

0 Introduction 0 Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) and Myasthenia Gravis (MG) are common causes of acute weakness.  About 25% of these patients may develop respiratory failure requiring intubation, so a major concern is determining who requires ICU-level monitoring and whether intubation should be performed.  Ideally it would be possible to predict with 100% accuracy which patients … Continue reading Five pearls for the dyspneic patient with Guillain-Barre Syndrome or Myasthenia Gravis