Editorial: How "sweet" complexity is and how "bitter" variability can be; The new aspect of intensive care unit hyperglycemia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 996-997

  Freire, Amado X ^a   Murillo, Luis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycemia control; Glycemia variability; Hyperglycemia; Hypoglycemia; Insulin

Indexed keywords

BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; BLOOD; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MORTALITY; NOTE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 77249096342     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181ce217e     Document Type: Editorial

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