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Some understanding of immune mechanisms is required in the care of the critically ill for three main reasons. First, acute illness is often the result of an inadequate or overwhelmed immune system (e.g. opportunistic infection, sepsis). Second, it is occasionally caused by in-appropriate or overactive immune responses (e.g. myaesthenia gravis). And third, whatever its cause, acute illness may be accompanied by a failure of normal immunity [4].
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Playfair, J.H.L. (1992). Humoral and Cell-Mediated Immunity. In: Tinker, J., Zapol, W.M. (eds) Care of the Critically Ill Patient. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3400-8_12
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