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Case report describes suspected hypoxic brain injury ultimately diagnosed as critical illness myopathy.
Case Report (n=1)
Multidisciplinary care including mobilization and nutritional support can facilitate significant recovery in patients with critical illness myopathy following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Multidisciplinary care may aid recovery in post-arrest critical illness myopathy; hypothesis-generating for larger confirmatory trials.
A 50-year-old woman was admitted to ICU following successful resuscitation after out of hospital cardiac arrest. She developed hypoxic brain injury and critical illness myopathy (CIM) resulting in flaccid weakness and prolonged ventilatory support. The patient was shifted to tertiary care facility and weaned from the ventiator. With multidisciplinary palliative care which included wound care, physiotherapist-assisted mobilization, and nutritional support, she showed significant improvement over 4 weeks, including improved muscle strength, swallowing, healing of pressure injury, and successful decannulation of tracheostomy.
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Kemik et al. (2026) conducted a case report in Critical Illness Myopathy (n=1). This paper presents a case of suspected hypoxic brain injury that was ultimately diagnosed as critical illness myopathy.
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