Critically ill polyneuropathy associated with burns: a case report.

A severe sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy is reported in a patient with burns covering 35 per cent of the body surface area, severe sepsis and acute renal failure. It presented as difficulty in wearing the patient from a ventilator. Attention is drawn to the condition of critically ill polyneuropathy which has been recently noted in severe illnesses and sepsis. From a search of the literature we believe this to be the first report of this condition in association with thermal injury.