Search Tag: insulin

ICU Management

Glucose-meter-accuracy-and-capillary-blood-testing-in-the-icu-why-it-matters

2023 08 Jun

  Find Nova Biomedical on Social Media      Presenters:   Brad S. Karon, M.D., PhD, FACB Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology; Director, Point of Care Testing and Hospital Clinical Labs Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN   Naveen Bangia, PhD Director, Medical and Scientific Affairs Nova...Read more

ICU Management

Perioperative-management-of-patients-with-diabetes-mellitus

2023 19 Apr

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that is becoming increasingly common in the general population. An estimated 537 million people worldwide have DM. Its prevalence is expected to increase to 700 million by 2045. Approximately 1 in 11 adults in Europe have DM, roughly 61 million individuals.   Patients with diabetes account for 15% of...Read more

ICU Management

Dysglycaemia-in-the-critically-ill

2018 16 Mar

As has been pointed out, the benefits of tight glycaemic control in the ICU have by no means been clearly established or accepted. In 2010 a meta-analysis of seven prospective randomised studies concluded that intensive insulin therapy in mixed ICU patients was not supported by evidence. 19 Today we understand that hyperglycaemia, hypoglycaemia,...Read more