Insulin infusion and hypoglycemia: Clinical implications and prevention

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1490-1491

  Dandona, Paresh ^a   Chaudhuri, Ajay ^a   Dhindsa, Sandeep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemia prevention; Mortality and hypoglycemia; Mortality and morbidity; Real time continuous blood glucose monitoring

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INFUSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 77953043853     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e15b73     Document Type: Editorial

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