Blood Glucose Variability is Associated with Mortality in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Dossett, Lesly A.; Cao, Hanqing; Mowery, Nathan T.; Dortch, Marcus J.; Morris, John M.; May, Addison K.

doi:10.1177/000313480807400802

Blood Glucose Variability is Associated with Mortality in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Intensive insulin therapy has widely and rapidly been adopted as the standard of care for the treatment of hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit (ICU). Variability in blood glucose is increasingly recognized as an important factor in outcomes in the chronic diabetic in addition to hemoglobin A…