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Published in: Critical Care 5/2013

Open Access 01-10-2013 | Research

Glycaemic control in Australia and New Zealand before and after the NICE-SUGAR trial: a translational study

Authors: Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen, Michael Bailey, David Pilcher, Neil Orford, Simon Finfer, Rinaldo Bellomo

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 5/2013

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Abstract

Introduction

There is no information on the uptake of Intensive Insulin Therapy (IIT) before the Normoglycemia in Intensive Care Evaluation and Surviving Using Glucose Algorithm Regulation (NICE-SUGAR) trial in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) and on the bi-national response to the trial, yet such data would provide important information on the evolution of ANZ practice in this field. We aimed to study ANZ glycaemic control before and after the publication of the results of the NICE-SUGAR trial.

Methods

We analysed glucose control in critically ill patients across Australia and New Zealand during a two-year period before and after the publication of the NICE-SUGAR study. We used the mean first day glucose (Glu1) (a validated surrogate of ICU glucose control) to define practice. The implementation of an IIT protocol was presumed if the median of Glu1 measurements was <6.44 mmol/L for a given ICU. Hypoglycaemia was categorised as severe (glucose ≤2.2 mmol/L) or moderate (glucose ≤3.9 mmol/L).

Results

We studied 49 ICUs and 176,505 patients. No ICU practiced IIT before or after NICE-SUGAR. Overall, Glu1 increased from 7.96 (2.95) mmol/L to 8.03 (2.92) mmol/L (P <0.0001) after NICE-SUGAR. Similar increases were noted in all patient subgroups studied (surgical, medical, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, ICU stay >48/<48 hours). The rate of severe and moderate hypoglycaemia before and after NICE-SUGAR study were 0.59% vs. 0.55% (P =0.33) and 6.62% vs. 5.68% (P <0.0001), respectively. Both crude and adjusted mortalities declined over the study period.

Conclusions

IIT had not been adopted in ANZ before the NICE-SUGAR study and glycaemic control corresponded to that delivered in the control arm of NICE-SUGAR trial. There were only minor changes in practice after the trial toward looser glycaemic control. The rate of moderate hypoglycaemia and mortality decreased along with such changes.
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Metadata
Title
Glycaemic control in Australia and New Zealand before and after the NICE-SUGAR trial: a translational study
Authors
Kirsi-Maija Kaukonen
Michael Bailey
David Pilcher
Neil Orford
Simon Finfer
Rinaldo Bellomo
Publication date
01-10-2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 5/2013
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc13030

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