TY - JOUR AU - Genay, Stéphanie AU - Décaudin, Bertrand AU - Ethgen, Sabine AU - Alluin, Arnaud AU - Babol, Elodie AU - Labreuche, Julien AU - Behal, Hélène AU - Vantyghem, Marie-Christine AU - Odou, Pascal AU - Lebuffe, Gilles PY - 2017 DA - 2017/07/11 TI - Effect of insulin infusion line on glycaemic variability in a perioperative high dependency unit (HDU): a prospective randomised controlled trial JO - Annals of Intensive Care SP - 74 VL - 7 IS - 1 AB - Glucose control is an important issue in post-operative patients. The objective here was to compare two insulin infusion lines by syringe pumps to assess the impact of medical devices on glycaemic variability in surgical patients under intensive insulin therapy. This open, prospective, single-centre randomised study was conducted in a fifteen-bed perioperative high dependency unit (HDU) in a university hospital. In total, 172 eligible patients receiving insulin therapy agreed to participate in the study. Subcutaneous continuous glucose monitoring was set up for all patients and an optimised system with a dedicated insulin infusion line for half of the patients. SN - 2110-5820 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-017-0298-x DO - 10.1186/s13613-017-0298-x ID - Genay2017 ER -