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Pro/con debate: Is intensive insulin therapy targeting tight blood glucose control of benefit in critically ill patients?

Tobias M Merz and Simon Finfer email

Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital of Sydney, St Leonards, 2065 NSW, Australia

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Critical Care 2008, 12:212doi:10.1186/cc6837

Published: 25 April 2008

Abstract

You have decided to develop a protocol for insulin therapy in your intensive care unit (ICU). You wonder about the merit of using intensive insulin therapy (IIT) to maintain tight blood glucose control in your patients.


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