Algorithm to manage blood glucose in critically ill patients: Who control the driver?

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 982-985

  Iapichino, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INSULIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE INTAKE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFUSION RATE; INSULIN INFUSION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; METABOLIC STRESS; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTPRANDIAL STATE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTENSIVE CARE; NUTRITION THERAPY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78651231693     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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