Introduction Tight glycaemic control is an important issue in the management of intensive
care unit (ICU) patients. The glycaemic goals described by Van Den Berghe and colleagues …

Objectives: Hyperglycemia during critical illness is common and is associated with
increased mortality. Intensive insulin therapy has improved outcomes in some, but not all …

Objective: To review the current knowledge of common comorbidities in the intensive care
unit, including diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, end-stage …

Introduction Critically ill patients can develop hyperglycaemia even if they do not have
diabetes. Intensive insulin therapy decreases morbidity and mortality rates in patients in a …

Objectives: To determine whether relative hyperglycemia was associated with in-hospital
mortality in critically ill patients independent of other prognostic variables and whether this …

Especially written for qualified nurses working in intensive care units, this comprehensive
text has been developed to be as accessible as possible. This fourth edition has been …

Objective: Chronic diabetes mellitus (DM) is a known cause of multisystem injury. The effect
of DM in acute critical illness may also be detrimental, but is not specifically known. We …

Introduction To obtain strict glucose regulation, an accurate and feasible bedside glucometry
method is essential. We evaluated three different types of point-of-care glucometry in …

Introduction Trials of tight glucose control have compared measures of central tendency,
such as average blood glucose, and yielded conflicting results. Other metrics, such as …

Introduction This was a planned substudy from the European observational Sepsis
Occurrence in Acutely ill Patients (SOAP) study to investigate the possible impact of insulin …