Anemia causes hypoglycemia in intensive care unit patients due to error in single-channel glucometers: Methods of reducing patient risk

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 471-476

  Pidcoke, Heather F ^a,b   Wade, Charles E ^a,b   Mann, Elizabeth A ^a   Salinas, Jose ^a,b   Cohee, Brian M ^a   Holcomb, John B ^a   Wolf, Steven E ^a,b  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Critical care; Glucometer; Glucose; Glucose measurement; Glucose oxidase; Hematocrit; Insulin; Intensive care unit; Point of care systems

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE CHANNEL GLUCOMETER; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

EID: 74949117489     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181bc826f     Document Type: Article

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