The new Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations on glucose control should be reconsidered

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Sir: Dellinger et al. are to be congratulated on their new Surviving Sepsis Campaign recommendations as published recently in this journal [1]. The efforts of Dellinger and his group are of great value for all of us who take care of patients with sepsis. Indeed, guidelines like those from the Surviving Sepsis Campaign, an initiative of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, the International Sepsis Forum, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, are very much welcomed and apprecia...

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Authors: Schultz, MJ; de Graaff, MJ; Kuiper, MA; Spronk, PE

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: Intensive Care Medicine
• Volume: 34
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 779-780
• Publication date: 2008-02-19
• DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-1027-6
• EISSN: 1432-1238
• ISSN: 0342-4642
• Language: English
• Keywords: Incidence (geometry); Anesthesia; Severe sepsis; Randomized controlled trial; Medicine; Surviving Sepsis Campaign; Septic shock; Emergency medicine; Sepsis; Hypoglycemia; Insulin; Internal medicine; Anesthesiology; Intensive care; Intensive care medicine