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Episode 36- Do we have to correct hyperglycemia in the ER?
ER-Rx: An ER + ICU Podcast
English - December 17, 2020 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.1 MBMedicine Health & Fitness pharmacy pharmacist physician resident physician assistant nurse practitioner nurse medicine emergency department emergency room Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Is routine correction of hyperglycemia in the ER necessary? And if so, which agents and routes are recommended? Find out this week!
References:
Driver BE, Olives TD, Bischof, JE, et al. Discharge glucose is not associated with short-term adverse outcomes in emergency department patients with moderate to severe hyperglycemia. Ann Emerg Med. 2016; 68 (6): 697- 705
Koscal LJ, Weeda ER, Matuskowitz AJ, Weant KA. Intravenous insulin for the management of non-emergent hyperglycemia in the emergency department. Am J Emerg Med. 2020
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