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Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill children

Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 5, pages 360–362 (2009)Cite this article

Intensive insulin therapy to maintain tight glucose control is associated with reduced morbidity and mortality in adult patients hospitalized with critical illnesses. Can the same rationale also be applied to critically ill children admitted to the pediatric intensive-care unit?

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  1. Medicine Critical Care Program, Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Michael S. D. Agus

  2. Division of Critical Care, University of Utah and Pulmonary and Critical Care Department, Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Eliotte L. Hirshberg

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Agus, M., Hirshberg, E. Intensive insulin therapy in critically ill children. Nat Rev Endocrinol 5, 360–362 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrendo.2009.111

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