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🧠 Intracranial pressure (ICP): current perspectives on physiology and monitoring 🧠 #FOAMcc #NeuroCritCare #FOAMed #EMCCM #NeuroICU #NeruroMonitoring #IntensiveCare #CriticalCare #MedEd 📖 Intensive Care Med (2022) 48:1471–1481
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âś… ICP monitoring is now viewed as integral to the clinical care of many life-threatening brain insults, such as severe traumatic brain injury, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and malignant stroke.
#FOAMcc #NeurocritCare
âś… It serves to warn of expanding intracranial mass lesions, to prevent or treat herniation events as well as pressure elevation which impedes nutrient delivery to the brain. #FOAMcc #NeuroCritCare
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#Tweetorial! Continuing with the #NeuroBootCamp my co-chiefs and I are leading @EmoryNeurology on #NeuroEmergencies, today’s #MedEd topic will be:
“Myasthenic Crisis”

Keep in mind I’m approaching this with my #NeuroCritCare hat on @MedTweetorials
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Some basic background info: Myasthenia Gravis is an autoimmune disorder causing faulty neuromuscular junction transmission. Typically due to one of the following antibodies:
-AchR
-MuSK
-LRP4
-Can be seronegative

20% have crisis within 1st yr of diagnosis!
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Clinically Myasthenia manifests itself with ptosis, fatigable weakness, eye movement abnormalities, and in the case of crisis- respiratory compromise.
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