Tight Glycemic Control
Organ failure and tight glycemic control in the SPRINT study
... [16,17]. Tight glycemic control (TGC) by intensive insulin therapy (IIT) has been successful at reducing mortality and/or organ failure in some prior studies ...reduced glycemic levels (and ...
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Postoperative tight glycemic control significantly reduces postoperative infection rates in patients undergoing surgery: a meta-analysis
... define tight glycemic control and trigger blood glucose as blood glucose ≤110 mg/dL, three articles were ≤ 120 mg/dL, the last four articles were ≤ 130 mg/dL, ≤140 mg/dL, ≤150 mg/dL and ≤ 160 mg/dL ...
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Tight glycemic control in critically ill pediatric patients: a systematic review and meta analysis
... of tight glycemic control, definition of hypoglycemia, blood glucose moni- toring, quality of glucose control, and duration and route used for the insulin therapy ...the tight ...
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Assessing the benefits and risks of tight glycemic control in critically ill children
... Abstract: The benefit of intravenous insulin for tight glycemic control (TGC) in critically ill patients is debatable. Initial single center trials on TGC in critically ill adults admitted to the ...
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Computerized intensive insulin dosing can mitigate hypoglycemia and achieve tight glycemic control when glucose measurement is performed frequently and on time
... 'tight' glycemic control ...the tight control group in the Efficacy of Vol- ume Substitution and Insulin Therapy in Severe Sepsis (VISEP) study ...glucose control in the ...
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Does tight glycemic control improve outcomes in pediatric patients undergoing surgery and/or those with critical illness?
... of tight glycemic control in pediatric surgical ...recommend tight glycemic control in these ...of tight glycemic control in pediatric surgical patients due ...
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Tight Glycemic Control With Insulin in Hyperglycemic Preterm Babies: A Randomized Controlled Trial
... to tight glycemic control with insulin (target BGC 4 – 6 mmol/L, “ tight ” group) or standard practice (restrictive guidelines for starting insulin, target BGC 8 – 10 mmol/L, “ control ...
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Second pilot trials of the STAR-Liege protocol for tight glycemic control in critically ill patients
... The SL2 protocol was tested in November and December 2010 at the CHU in Liege, Belgium. Each pilot trial was 24 hours long. The clinical trial included 9 patients from the hospital’s intensive care unit, 3 patients ...
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Physiological modeling, tight glycemic control, and the ICU clinician: what are models and how can they affect practice?
... In intensive care, patient-specific metabolic model parameters also have been used as sepsis biomarkers because they can accurately reflect the inflammatory sta- tus of the patient and severity of illness [31,32]. These ...
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Validation of a model-based virtual trials method for tight glycemic control in intensive care
... The clinical data was independent from the Christchurch Hospital ICU data used in prior development and clinical validation of the model employed here. More impor- tantly, there are 2 cohorts matched by severity of ...
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Variability of insulin sensitivity during the first 4 days of critical illness: implications for tight glycemic control
... A further limitation is the relatively small cohort size available for analysis. The demands of manually tran- scribing written clinical data into electronic form and the specific inclusion criteria have restricted the ...
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Perspectives on the Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals toward Diabetes in Community Health Settings in United Arab Emirates
... Background: Diabetes is a chronic disease that is associated with high cost and health care utiliza- tion. Attitudes of healthcare professionals (HCPs) toward diabetes have a significant impact on quality of diabetes ...
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Simulation and qualitative analysis of glucose variability, mean glucose, and hypoglycemia after subcutaneous insulin therapy for stress hyperglycemia
... Literature review suggests that patients with SH have variable responses to the same insulin treatment [16]. Disease heterogeneity may partially explain why only certain sub- groups, such as trauma patients, seem to ...
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Nutritional support and brain tissue glucose metabolism in poor grade SAH: a retrospective observational study
... While such observational data argue for tight glycemic control, recent studies investigating the relationship between serum and brain glucose levels have found that intensive insulin pro[r] ...
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Managing feline diabetes: current perspectives
... of tight glycemic control, factors associated with remission include a low-carbohydrate diet (12% versus 26% of energy from carbohydrate), long-acting insulin (glargine versus PZI or lente), higher ...
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Year in review 2008: Critical Care sepsis
... of tight glycemic control versus conventional glycemic control from Australia, New Zealand and Canada (the NICE-SUGAR Study) ...to tight gly- cemic control over ...
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Sotagliflozin improves glycemic control in nonobese diabetes-prone mice with type 1 diabetes
... improve glycemic control; in this study, we wanted to remain focused on whether sotagliflozin could improve glycemic control without increasing the frequency of hypoglycemia events in NOD mice ...
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Predictors of poor glycemic control in type 2 diabetic patients attending public hospitals in Dar es Salaam
... Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the level of glycemic control and explore the factors associated with poor glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). ...
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Predictors of poor glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes on follow up care at a tertiary healthcare setting in Ethiopia
... adherence. Moreover, females with T2D were more likely to have poor glycemic control. This was consistent with the study conducted in Ethiopia [21] and abroad [24]. In fact, in our study, a low dose of ...
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Role of Acarbose in Glycemic Control.
... The first step in evaluation of obesity is calculation of BMI. It is usually calculated by dividing weight (in kilograms) by square height (in meters). It correlates significantly with body fat, morbidity, and mortality ...
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