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Simon Finfer, MBBS, FJFICM; Anthony Delaney, MBBS, FJFICM

JAMA. 2008;300(8):963-965.

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In critical care medicine, it is unlikely that any single study has had the influence to match that of the study by van den Berghe et al¹ of intensive insulin therapy in surgical intensive care patients. Published in 2001, the study reported that targeting normoglycemia in ventilated patients in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) reduced the risk of in-hospital death by one-third. Although the size of the treatment effect seemed improbable, the underlying concept had face validity as improved glycemic control had been proven beneficial in other patients with severe acute illness.² As a result, tight glycemic control in critically ill adults is now recommended by numerous organizations including the American Diabetes Association³ and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.⁴ In this issue of JAMA, Wiener and colleagues⁵ report a meta-analysis of studies examining tight glycemic control in critically ill adults; . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliations: Critical Care and Trauma, The George Institute for International Health (Dr Finfer); University of Sydney, and Intensive Care Unit, Royal North Shore Hospital (Drs Finfer and Delaney), Sydney, Australia.

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