A sweet debate: Glycemic control in the intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3271-3272

  Van Den Heuvel, Ingeborg ^a   Ellger, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperglycemia; Insulin; Intensive care unit; Intensive insulin therapy; Mortality

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGERY;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 58149243242     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31818f2831     Document Type: Editorial

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