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

Finally, the end of intensive insulin therapy in the ICU

Oct 19, 2023

∙ Paid

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…

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