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- Title
The optimal blood glucose target in critically ill patients: more questions than answers.
- Authors
Gunst, Jan; Doig, Gordon; Doig, Gordon S
- Abstract
The authors highlight issues concerning the optimal blood glucose target in critically ill patients, including tight blood glucose control and the risks of lowering glucose levels as well as higher incidence of hypoglycemia. They also mention a network meta-analysis aiming to assess the relative effectiveness of more than two interventions for a given condition.
- Subjects
BLOOD sugar; PATIENT monitoring; CHRONICALLY ill; HYPOGLYCEMIA; ENDOCRINE diseases; BLOOD sugar analysis; INSULIN therapy; CATASTROPHIC illness; COMPARATIVE studies; CRITICAL care medicine; HYPERGLYCEMIA; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; META-analysis; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2017, Vol 43, Issue 1, p110
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-016-4610-2