Pediatrics: Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill children

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 360-362

  Agus, Michael S D ^a   Hirshberg, Eliotte L ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TREATMENT INDICATION; CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; NOTE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; INSULIN;

CHILD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 69449098479     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.111     Document Type: Short Survey

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