... ineffective cough and swallowing dysfunction.Neuromuscular and neuropsychological eventsCritical illness polyneuropathy/myopathy, another manifesta-tion of the systemic response inflammatory syndrome ... therapy, clinicallysignificant bleeding occurred in 17% of patients, and was sig-nificantly more frequent in non-survivors. It has been associ-ated with increases in mortality and in ICU stay ... a distinct, acutely and severely ill population in which ARDS, shock and organ failure are extremely frequentfrom admission onwards, and who suffer recurrent respiratory,infectious, gastrointestinal...