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Friday, January 22, 2016

PAIN IN GUILLAIN BARRE SYNDROME



✔️GBS a number of different subtypes

✔️The most common is an acute inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy 

✔️More than half of patients report severe pain. 

✔️Severe widespread neuropathic pain may be described, often without the features of a peripheral neuropathy, as well as musculoskeletal pain. 

✔️May sometimes have severe acute pain, 

✔️Treatment with systemic ketamine and/or lidocaine as well as gabapentin/pregabalin and carbamazepine may be of benefit in the acute phase (ANZCA and FPM, 2010).



Ref: Acute Pain Management: A practical guide,4/e, Pamela E. Macintyre , Stephan A. Schug

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