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It is important to monitor blood sugar levels in hospitalized patients regardless of whether they have diabetes.
 
Stress, especially following surgery, has the effect of raising blood sugar levels which increases risk of infection and death.
 
The American Diabetes Association has published guidelines for the management of blood glucose levels in hospital, including close monitoring and regulating with insulin, during the crisis, and follow-up after discharge.

Controlling Blood Sugar in Hospitalized Patients Saves Lives

eMaxHealth.com - 4/4/2006 5:44 PM

Roughly one third of patients experience hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar, during their hospital stay, and many of those patients don't have diabetes or are undiagnosed. Blood sugar levels tend to go higher when a patient is critically ill, for example, after heart surgery – a condition referred to as stress hyperglycemia. Stress hyperglycemia in seriously ill patients worsens outcomes – higher medical costs, higher incidence of infection and readmission to the hospital, and higher mortality rates.
 
Until recently there were no national standards of care for managing hyperglycemia in the inpatient setting. That changed with the 2005 release of the American Diabetes Association's (ADA) Clinical Practice Guidelines – the ADA's first guidelines relating to inpatient hyperglycemic care. By adopting and implementing these guidelines, the University of Kentucky HealthCare Chandler Medical Center is making huge strides in assuring that hyperglycemic patients don't fall thr
 
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