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Agenda

1:00pm

 

 

“Safe and Effective Glycemic Control: Glycemic Variability and the Potential Role of Diabetic Status”

 

This presentation is focused on understanding the evolving science behind inpatient glycemic control. Hyperglycemia has been well described as a risk factor for adverse outcomes in different populations of acutely ill patients, including patients with medical and surgical neurologic diagnoses, coronary artery disease, postoperative cardiovascular surgery patients and heterogeneous populations of adult ICU patients.

 

Following the publication of the landmark “Leuven 1” interventional study, targeting euglycemia in a surgical ICU setting among predominantly cardiovascular postoperative patients, all of whom required mechanical ventilation, “tight glycemic control (TGC),” was adopted as a standard of care by some professional societies and implemented in ICU’s around the world. Dr. Krinsley will discuss emerging literature that suggests that hyperglycemia might exert an even more deleterious effect on non-diabetics than among diabetics during acute illness, but the relationship between Glycemic Variability, diabetic status, Mean Glucose and mortality in the critically ill is unknown. New research is nearing submission for publication that investigates whether diabetic status affects the relationship between GV and mortality in critically ill adult patients.

2:00pm

Refreshment Break

2:30pm

Panel Discussion:

 

Web cast to 10 GA hospital sites

  • Housed on St. Joseph’s Web site and Roche Web site.

Panel Members:

  • Dr. Krinsley, 2 CDE’s, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pharmacist

  • Moderator: Dr. Robert Osburne, Endocrinologist, Chair of the Special Interest Group for Diabetes, Georgia Hospital Association

Follow up discussion on the importance of data as a key to safe and effective program implementation. Questions will be prepared to drive discussion focus, attendees may submit additional questions to moderator on cards provided on-site

 

Program Contacts:

  • Joyce Reid, GHA, jreid@gha.org;

  • Karen Bramlett, DE, St. Joseph’s (404-851-7956);

  • Joyce Ditmer, St. Joseph’s (404-851-7001) Ed Dept.

 

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