Blood glucose increments as a measure of body physiology
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Correspondence: Robert G Hahn robert.hahn@sodersjukhuset.se
Professor of Anaesthesia & Intensive Care, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Critical Care 2005, 9:155-157 doi:10.1186/cc3494
See related research article http://ccforum.com/content/9/2/R144
Published: 28 February 2005Abstract
The initial distribution volume of glucose (IDVG) can be calculated from the arterial plasma glucose level between 3 and 7 min after a bolus intravenous infusion of 5 g glucose. Ishihara and colleagues have investigated the value of IDVG over the past decade. Although IDVG is simple and cheap to measure, there have been several very different proposals regarding what it should be used for. The most interesting and logical correlate is that between IDVG and cardiac output. A recent study showed that it does not matter much whether the calculation of IDVG is based on blood or plasma samples.