Intensive insulin therapy reduces microdialysis glucose values without altering glucose utilization or improving the lactate/pyruvate ratio after traumatic brain injury.
Vespa P, Boonyaputthikul R, McArthur DL, Miller C, Etchepare M, Bergsneider M, Glenn T, Martin N, Hovda D.
Vespa P, et al.
Crit Care Med. 2006 Mar;34(3):850-6. doi: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000201875.12245.6F.
Crit Care Med. 2006.
PMID: 16505665
However, intensive insulin therapy was associated with increased incidence of microdialysis markers of cellular distress, namely elevated glutamate (38+/-37% vs. 10+/-17%, p<.01), elevated lactate/pyruvate ratio (38+/-37% vs. 19+/-26%, p<.03) and …
However, intensive insulin therapy was associated with increased incidence of microdialysis markers of cellular distress, namely elevated gl …