Recruitment

Recruitment Status
Completed

Inclusion Criteria

critical care patients with blood glucose concentration >180mg/dl
critical care patients with blood glucose concentration >180mg/dl

Exclusion Criteria

insulin dependent diabetes
insulin dependent diabetes

Summary

Conditions
Hyperglycemia
Type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 4
Design
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Primary Purpose: Treatment

Participation Requirements

Age
Between 18 years and 80 years
Gender
Both males and females

Description

Inclusion criteria: Patients older than 18 years of age receiving full nutritional calories supply who presented blood glucose concentration ≥180 mg/dl. Exclusion criteria: moribund patients and patients enrolled on other studies were excluded. Patients with type 1 diabetes, patients with insulin-de...

Inclusion criteria: Patients older than 18 years of age receiving full nutritional calories supply who presented blood glucose concentration ≥180 mg/dl. Exclusion criteria: moribund patients and patients enrolled on other studies were excluded. Patients with type 1 diabetes, patients with insulin-dependent diabetes are excluded and patients with glycated hemoglobin (glycosilated hemoglobin) >5.6% are also excluded because of the potential of underlying insulin resistance. A randomized crossover design is used. Patients receiving insulin infusion therapy are prospectively enrolled and randomly assigned to start the treatment either with lispro insulin or regular insulin at a dose of 0.04 units/Kg/h. After full enteral or parenteral nutrition is established, the insulin infusion therapy is started if blood glucose concentration ≥180 mg/dl (upper blood glucose concentration threshold) and is kept constant until blood glucose concentration is ≤140 mg/dl (lower blood glucose concentration threshold). Insulin infusion is discontinued after the blood glucose concentration reached ≤140 mg/dl. Because of the crossover design of the study, the same patient is treated with both lispro insulin or regular insulin infusion allowing an interval of at least 6 hours between the 2 treatments. During the study period -IIT and after insulin infusion is discontinued- the blood glucose concentration is measured every 30 minutes in whole blood (with blood gas analysis) until blood glucose concentration values return within the target threshold (140-180 mg/dl). The primary outcome measure was the extent of "residual effect" after that insulin (Hlog or Hlin) infusion has been discontinued. This variable is expressed as the ratio between blood glucose concentration reduction during insulin infusion (from the beginning of insulin infusion for blood glucose concentration values >180 mg/dl, to the first measurement ≤140 mg/dl) and blood glucose concentration reduction after insulin infusion is discontinued (from the first blood glucose concentration value ≤140 mg/dl to the lowest blood glucose concentration value recorded). Secondary end point measures are: rate of blood glucose concentration reduction during insulin infusion (mg/dl/h-1), duration of the "residual effect" (time elapsed between insulin infusion discontinuation and the lowestblood glucose concentration value), and the rate of blood glucose concentration increase from lowest blood glucose concentration value to the first blood glucose concentration value ≥140 mg/dl.

Inclusion Criteria

critical care patients with blood glucose concentration >180mg/dl
critical care patients with blood glucose concentration >180mg/dl

Exclusion Criteria

insulin dependent diabetes
insulin dependent diabetes

Tracking Information

NCT #
NCT02165566
Collaborators
Not Provided
Investigators
  • Principal Investigator: Federico Bilotta, MD, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, University of ROme "La Sapienza"
  • Federico Bilotta, MD, PhD Department of Anesthesiology, University of ROme "La Sapienza"