Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Nour <br/><br/>
Impact of tight glycemic control on outcome in critically 111 patients /  
 دراسة تأثير السيطرة المحكمه لمستوى السكر بالدم على مرضى الحالات الحرجة 
Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Nour ; Supervised Alia Hassan Abdelfattah , Mohamed Ashraf , Ahmed Mowafi 
 - Cairo :   Mahmoud Khaled Mahmoud Nour ,   2009 
 - 240 P. :   charts ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Critical Care Medicine 
<br/><br/> Hyperglycemia and insulin resistance are a common occurance in critically ill patients and are associated with adverse outcome. Thus, intensive insulin therapy is advocated increasungly for hyperglycemic intensive care unit (ICU) patients to redcue morbidity and mortality. Nevertheless convincing evidence of benefit comes mainly from trials carried out on surgical ICU patients while studies of the effects of intensive insulin therapy in mixed medical and surgical ICU patients have yielded conflicting results 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Intensive insulin Mixed medical/surgical Tight glycemic