Pro/con debate: Is intensive insulin therapy targeting tight blood glucose control of benefit in critically ill patients?

Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Merz, Tobias M ^a   Finfer, Simon ^a  

^a ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; BLOOD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG EFFECT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; METABOLISM; STANDARD;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE;

EID: 48849099877     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6837     Document Type: Review

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