✔️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
