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SUBMITTER: Bansal B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4138898 | biostudies-other | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism 20140701 4
Hyperglycemia is common in patients undergoing cardiac surgery and is associated with poor outcomes. This is a review of the perioperative insulin protocol being used at Medanta, the Medicity, which has a large volume cardiac surgery setup. Preoperatively, patients are usually continued on their preoperative outpatient medications. Intravenous insulin infusion is intiated postoperatively and titrated using a column method with a choice of 7 scales. Insulin dose is calculated as a factor of blood ...[more]