Standard practice in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for all infants receiving parenteral dextrose is to calculate the glucose infusion rate (GIR). Measured in mg kg −1 min −1, a GIR allows ...
The association of hyperglycemia and markers of hepatic dysfunction with dextrose infusion rates in Korean patients receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN) was studied. A retrospective study of 122 ...
Provision of dextrose at rates of >4 mg/kg/min may be associated with hyperglycemia even in nondiabetic patients because insulin resis-tance is universal in stressed, hospitalized patients in whom ...