
Episode 55: Undifferentiated encephalopathy and autoimmune encephalitis, with Casey Albin
Critical Care Scenarios
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IVIG or Plasma Exchange?
"This one is pretty severe off, right? Like he is basically an a coma at this point." "We have kind of three things that you can do. You can use steroids, which are just, you know, like a shotgun approach to like just blunting the whole immune regulation process". Or you have my favorite, which is plasma exchange, which is basically just reading the body of the antibodies that are in the plasma and putting back some albumin," she says. 'I feel like it's faster for some processes'
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