• Nutrition · Nov 2010

    Controlled Clinical Trial

    Perioperative tight glucose control with hyperinsulinemic-normoglycemic clamp technique in cardiac surgery.

    • Hiroaki Sato, George Carvalho, Tamaki Sato, David Bracco, Takumi Codere-Maruyama, Ralph Lattermann, Roupen Hatzakorzian, Takashi Matsukawa, and Thomas Schricker.
    • Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
    • Nutrition. 2010 Nov 1; 26 (11-12): 1122-9.

    ObjectivePrevious attempts to achieve tight glucose control in surgical patients were associated with a significant incidence of hypoglycemia. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of perioperative glucose and insulin administration while maintaining normoglycemia using a hyperinsulinemic-normoglycemic clamp technique.MethodsWe studied 70 non-diabetic and 40 diabetic patients undergoing cardiac procedures. Before induction of anesthesia, insulin was administered at 5 mU·kg(-1)·min(-1). Blood glucose (BG) concentrations were determined every 15-30 min. Dextrose 20% was infused at a rate adjusted to maintain BG within 3.5-6.1 mmol/L. At the end of surgery, insulin infusion was decreased to 1 mU·kg(-1)·min(-1) and continued for 24h. The mean ± standard deviation of BG and the percentage of BG values within the target range were calculated perioperatively. Episodes of severe hypoglycemia, i.e., BG <2.2 mmol/L, were recorded.ResultsThe mean BG remained within target at all times. Normoglycemia in non-diabetic patients was achieved in 92.8% of measurements during and in 83.2% after surgery. In diabetic patients 87.4% of values were within target intraoperatively and 76.7% after surgery. The rate of severe hypoglycemia was 2.7% (three patients). In non-diabetic patients the incidence of severe hypoglycemia was 0.2% of measurements during and 0.1% after surgery. Diabetic patients showed only one episode of severe hypoglycemia after surgery (0.1%).ConclusionPerioperative use of a hyperinsulinemic-normoglycemic clamp technique established and maintained normoglycemia in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with little risk of hypoglycemia.Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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