Intensive blood glucose control in the ICU is not helpful (TGC-FAST trial)

Finally, the end of intensive insulin therapy in the ICU

Hyperglycemia is associated with worse outcomes in the ICU (and in medical patients generally), so correcting it must improve outcomes … right?

After two studies published in NEJM 2001 and 2006 showed intensive glucose control (to 80-110 g/dL) improved outcomes in adult medical and surgical patients, and then in kids (all at a single center in Leuven, Be…