Tight glucose control and hypoglycemia [3]

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1391-

  Preiser, Jean Charles ^a   Brunkhorst, Frank ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; NOTE;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN;

EID: 41649121163     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31816a16d0     Document Type: Letter

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