New study set to change how critically ill patients are treated

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 08:56 in Health & Medicine

The current practice of intensively lowering blood glucose in critically ill patients increases the risk of death by 10%. Results of the largest trial of intensive glucose lowering in critically ill patients published today in The New England Journal of Medicine indicate that international clinical guidelines need urgent review.

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