Evidence-lost to tight glycemic control?

Evidence-lost to tight glycemic control?

In recent years, the field of intensive care medicine has had the benefit of learning from two randomized controlled trials that tight glycemic control (TGC) is beneficial to critically ill patients [1,2]. No benefit was found by two other clinical trials, however, hampering implementation of TGC in daily practice [3,4]. The question arises of whether the intensive care community interprets the...

Tight glycemic control in critically ill adults.

Tight Glycemic Control in Critically Ill Children.

BACKGROUND In multicenter studies, tight glycemic control targeting a normal blood glucose level has not been shown to improve outcomes in critically ill adults or children after cardiac surgery. Studies involving critically ill children who have not undergone cardiac surgery are lacking. METHODS In a 35-center trial, we randomly assigned critically ill children with confirmed hyperglycemia (...

Social implications of tight glycemic control.

Diabetes Intervention: Achieving Tight Glycemic Control Through Combination Therapy