"Waste not, want not": Determining the optimal priming volume for intravenous insulin infusions

Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 598-601

  Goldberg, Philip A ^a   Kedves, Alexia ^a   Walter, Kimberly ^b   Groszmann, Aida ^b   Belous, Andrea ^b   Inzucchi, Silvio E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; NOVOLIN R U 100; POLYPROPYLENE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST; DIABETES MELLITUS; DILUTION; HUMAN; INSULIN INFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ADSORPTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INSULIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 33845633350     PISSN: 15209156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dia.2006.8.598     Document Type: Article

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