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Glucose Control in the ICU

   
The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics • January 25, 2010;  (Issue 1330)
Once thought to be a beneficial response to critical illness, hyperglycemia is now recognized as independently associated with death and other adverse outcomes in various groups of critically ill patients....
Once thought to be a beneficial response to critical illness, hyperglycemia is now recognized as independently associated with death and other adverse outcomes in various groups of critically ill patients. Whether normalization of blood glucose by insulin infusion is beneficial in such patients has been a subject of debate in the critical care community. Some new guidelines have been published.

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Med Lett Drugs Ther. 2010 Jan 25;52(1330):6-7 | Show Full IntroductionHide Full Introduction