The effect of intensive insulin therapy on infection rate, vasospasm, neurologic outcome, and mortality in neurointensive care unit after intracranial aneurysm clipping in patients with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage: A randomized prospective pilot trial

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 156-160

  Bilotta, Federico ^a,c   Spinelli, Allison ^b   Giovannini, Federico ^a   Doronzio, Andrea ^a   Delfini, Roberto ^a   Rosa, Giovanni ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Anesthesiology Critical Care and Pain Medicine ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute subarachnoid hemorrhage; Hyperglycemia; Intensive insulin infusion; Neuro intensive care; Symptomatic vasospasm

Indexed keywords

MONOCOMPONENT INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM;

ACUTE DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 34347339524     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3180338e69     Document Type: Article

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