Intraoperative hyperglycemia is independently associated with infectious complications after non-cardiac surgery

Abstract Background Perioperative hyperglycemia and its associated increase in morbidity and mortality have been well studied in the critical care and cardiac surgery literature. However, there is little data regarding the impact of intraoperative hyperglycemia on post-operative infectious complicat...

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Main Authors: Amy M. Shanks, Derek T. Woodrum, Sathish S. Kumar, Darrell A. Campbell, Sachin Kheterpal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12871-018-0546-0