Hypoglycemia is associated with intensive care unit mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1430-1434

  Hermanides, Jeroen ^a   Bosman, Robert J ^b   Vriesendorp, Titia M ^a   Dotsch, Ron ^c   Rosendaal, Frits R ^d   Zandstra, Durk F ^e   Hoekstra, Joost B L ^a   Devries, J Hans ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hypoglycemia; ICU mortality; Intensive care unit; Intensive insulin therapy; Severity of disease

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED DRUG THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEQUENTIAL ORGAN FAILURE ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX SURGERY;

EID: 77953081942     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181de562c     Document Type: Article

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