Relevance of anxiety in clinical practice of Guillain-Barre syndrome: a cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Illness is often associated with anxiety, but few data exist about the prognostic significance of this phenomenon. To address this issue, we assessed whether patient anxiety is associated with subsequent need for intubation in Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). Incident case-cohort study. Acute secondary care in a teaching hospital (France) from 2006 to 2010. 110 adult GBS patients. Either language barrier or cognitive decline that precluded understanding was considered as exclusion criteria. Acute respiratory failure. At admission, anxiety and clinical factors (including known predictors of respiratory failure: delay between GBS onset and admission, inability to lift head, vital capacity (VC)) were assessed and related to subsequent need for mechanical ventilation (MV). Anxiety was assessed u

SUBMITTER: Sharshar T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3432836 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature