Outside the limits of normal blood glucose during critical illness: Failed homeostasis and quantifying allostatic load

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 755-757

  Branco, Ricardo Garcia ^a   Tasker, Robert Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allostasis; glucose variability; glucose variation; glycemic control; mortality; pediatric critical care

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; PROTEIN KINASE C BETA;

ALLOSTASIS; APOPTOSIS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CYTOTOXICITY; EDITORIAL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IN VITRO STUDY; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY CELL; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 78649517324     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e3181f4d606     Document Type: Editorial

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