Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Scott, Mitchell G
• Bruns, David E
• Boyd, James C
• Sacks, David B

Titel

Tight glucose control in the intensive care unit: are glucose meters up to the task?

Ist Teil von

• Clinical chemistry (Baltimore, Md.), 2009-01, Vol.55 (1), p.18-20

Ort / Verlag

England: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Typical TGC protocols consist of placing postoperative and critically ill patients on a continuous intravenous insulin infusion, checking their blood glucose concentrations on an hourly basis (or other schedule), and giving a bolus of insulin and/or changing the infusion rate of insulin based on the glucose concentration, with a goal of maintaining glucose between 4.4 and 6.7 mmol/L (80 and 120 mg/dL). Because of the total dependence of treatment decisions in these protocols (and most likely of outcomes) on patient glucose values, we believe it to be important that future glucose meters used in these protocols have decreased total error and be subject to the same regulatory requirements as central laboratory methods.