Britney, a mother of a child who was diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, asks the nurse about the treatment plan for her child. The nurse is aware that:

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Currently, plasmapheresis and high-dose immunoglobulin therapy are used to lessen the severity of the illness and speed the recovery in most patients. Plasmapheresis is a method by which whole blood is removed from the body and processed so that the red and white blood cells are separated from the plasma, or liquid portion of the blood. The blood cells are then returned to the patient without the plasma, which the body quickly replaces. In high-dose immunoglobulin therapy, doctors give intravenous injections of the proteins that, in small quantities, the immune system uses naturally to attack invading organisms

Britney, a Mother of a Child Who Was Diagnosed with Guillain-Barre