Intensive insulin therapy: Are burns different?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1496-1497

  Palmieri, Tina L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Burns; Glucose; Intensive insulin therapy; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

BURN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DRUG ACTIVITY; EDITORIAL; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXCISION; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

EID: 77953061695     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e15b51     Document Type: Editorial

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