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29-10-2024 | Hypoglycemia | Editorial
Managing blood glucose control in the intensive care unit
Authors:
Jan Gunst, Guillermo E. Umpierrez, Greet Van den Berghe
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Excerpt
Most critically ill patients develop insulin resistance and hyperglycemia, which are associated with mortality risk. However, the severity of hyperglycemia also reflects illness severity, highlighting the need for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to determine whether hyperglycemia directly impairs outcome [
1]. We summarize RCT evidence and propose a practical framework for glucose control in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. …