Continuous glucose monitoring system: Is it really accurate, safe and clinically useful?

Continuous glucose monitoring system: Is it really accurate, safe and clinically useful?

The continuous glucose monitoring system (CGM) has been used for constant checking of glucose level by measuring interstitial glucose concentrations, since the early days of the 21st century. It can potentially improve diabetes care if used carefully with the understanding of the characteristics of this system. Although there is a time lag of approximately 5-15 min between blood and interstitia...

Oxaliplatin and ototoxicity: is it really safe for hearing?

BACKGROUND/AIM Oxaliplatin is an effective and widely used chemotherapeutic agent in the treatment of many solid tumors. The most common side effects are peripheral neuropathy, gastrointestinal toxicity, and neutropenia. There have been some case reports about ototoxicity with oxaliplatin, but no clinical trials. In this trial, we explored whether or not oxaliplatin has ototoxic effects. MATE...

Intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring in thyroid surgery: is it really useful?

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the ability of intraoperative recurrent laryngeal nerve monitoring to predict the postoperative functional outcome and the potential role of this technique in reducing the postoperative nerve palsy rate. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2007 and December 2011, 1693 consecutive patients who underwent thyroidectomy by a single surgical team were evalu...

Supplementary oxygen therapy in COPD: is it really useful?

Many patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) develop hypoxaemia at rest when awake as their disease progresses. This may or may not be accompanied by hypercapnia but is a poor prognostic feature, independent of the forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1). 1 For many years the scientific study of COPD was driven by the need to gain a greater understanding of the ...

Editorial Supplementary oxygen therapy in COPD: is it really useful?