Editorial: How sweet it is ... (or isn't)!

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 979-981

  Peterfreund, Robert A ^a   Akhtar, Shamsuddin ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTERIAL GAS; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; POLYCYTHEMIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATIENT CARE;

ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 77950978393     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181d4527e     Document Type: Editorial

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