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1: Crit Care. 2008;12(2):212. Epub 2008 Apr 25.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Pro/con debate: Is intensive insulin therapy targeting tight blood glucose control of benefit in critically ill patients?

Merz TM, Finfer S.

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney, St Leonards, 2065 NSW, Australia.

You have decided to develop a protocol for insulin therapy in your intensive care unit (ICU). You wonder about the merit of using intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to maintain tight blood glucose control in your patients.

PMID: 18466639 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2447574