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- Title
COMMENTARY: Intensive insulin therapy reduced morbidity but not mortality in patients in the medical intensive care unit.
- Authors
Thompson, B. Taylor
- Abstract
The article comments on the study related to intensive insulin therapy conducted by G. Van den Berghe and colleagues. The author cites various studies related to the subject. In the present study, the possibility of early damage has led some researchers to recommend a delay in insulin therapy during the initial phase of critical illness in medical patients.
- Subjects
INSULIN; HYPOGLYCEMIC agents; CATASTROPHIC illness; CRITICAL care medicine; CLINICAL trials; PATIENTS
- Publication
ACP Journal Club, 2006, Vol 145, Issue 2, p34
- ISSN
1056-8751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/acpjc-2006-145-2-034