The new Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations on glucose control should be reconsidered

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 779-780

  Schultz, Marcus J ^a   De Graaff, Mart J ^a   Kuiper, Michael A ^b   Spronk, Peter E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^c GELRE HOSPITALS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

COMA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEATH; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; PATIENT CARE; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; EUROPE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEPSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 43349095483     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1027-6     Document Type: Letter

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