Hospital practice (1995)
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Hospital practice (1995) · Apr 2012
Observational StudyDiabetes and stress hyperglycemia in the intensive care unit: outcomes after cardiac surgery.
Hyperglycemia is common in the post-cardiac surgery population and has been associated with increased mortality rates, surgical length of stay, and infection rates. Although hospitalized patients with diabetes are known to have more complications, recent studies in various hospital settings have reported worse outcomes in patients with stress hyperglycemia than in those with diabetes. ⋯ Maintaining a blood glucose range between 100 to 140 mg/dL in post-cardiac surgery patients was associated with a low mortality rate, low risk of hypoglycemia, and with complications rates that were similar in patients with diabetes and stress hyperglycemia.