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- Title
Intensive insulin therapy reduced the incidence of neurologic complications in critically ill patients: COMMETARY.
- Authors
Bleck, Thomas P.
- Abstract
This article comments on a study conducted to examine the efficacy of intensive insulin therapy in reducing the incidence of neurologic complications in critically ill patients. In a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) population, intensive insulin therapy decreased mortality, bloodstream infections, acute renal failure, need for transfusions, and critical illness polyneuropathy. These effects were most apparent in patients who remained in the ICU for more than 5 days, most of whom were general surgical patients. Many ICUs have adopted intensive insulin therapy based on these data, and other studies of various populations of critically ill patients are in progress.
- Subjects
CRITICALLY ill patient care; INSULIN therapy; HYPOGLYCEMIC agents; CRITICAL care medicine; BRAIN injuries; NEUROLOGICAL disorders
- Publication
ACP Journal Club, 2006, Vol 144, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1056-8751
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7326/acpjc-2006-144-1-020