Reporting on Glucose Control Metrics in the Intensive Care Unit
Open Access
- 1 January 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Touch Medical Media, Ltd. in touchREVIEWS in Endocrinology
- Vol. 11 (2), 75-78
- https://doi.org/10.17925/EE.2015.11.02.75
Abstract
The ‘diabetes of injury’ typically associated with critical illness has recently been thoroughly revisited and much better characterised following major therapeutic advances. The occurrence of severe hyperglycaemia, moderate hypoglycaemia or high glycaemic variability has been associated with an increased mortality and rate of complications in large independent cohorts of acutely ill patients. Hence, current guidelines advocate the prevention and avoidance of each of these three dysglycaemic domains, and the use of a common metrics for a quantitative description of dysglycaemic events, such as the proportion of time spent in the target glycaemic range as a unifying variable. Using a common language will help to face the future challenges, including the definition of the most appropriate blood glucose (BG) target according to the category of admission, the time interval from the initial injury and the medical history. The clinical testing of technological improvements in the monitoring systems and the therapeutic algorithms should be assessed using the same metrics.Keywords
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