Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Adult Patients
Essential Points
Essential Points
- Continuous glucose monitoring systems can effectively achieve glycemic targets and reduce hypoglycemia in hospitalized patients.
- Patients receiving glucocorticoid therapy or enteral nutrition are at high risk for hyperglycemia and require scheduled insulin therapy in the hospital.
- Patients using insulin pump therapy before hospital admission may self-manage these devices with oversight by hospital personnel.
- Diabetes self-management education to hospitalized patients can promote improved glycemic control with reductions in the risk for hospital readmission.
- Patients with diabetes scheduled for elective surgery may have improved postoperative outcomes when pre-operative hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is ≤8% and when blood glucose (BG) values in the immediate pre-operative period are <180 mg/dL.
- Providing pre-operative carbohydrate containing beverages to patients with known diabetes is not recommended.
- Patients with newly recognized hyperglycemia or well-managed diabetes on non-insulin therapy may be treated with correctional insulin alone as initial therapy at hospital admission.
- Scheduled insulin therapy is preferred for patients experiencing persistent blood glucose values >180 mg/dL.
- Dipeptidyl peptidase inhibitors can be used in combination with correction insulin in selected patients with type 2 diabetes who have milder degrees of hyperglycemia provided there are no contraindications to the use of these agents.
Definitions of Terms Used
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...dation 2.1In adult patients who are hospitalized f...
...mmendation 3.1In adult patients usi...
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...on 6.1In adult patients hospitalized for non...
...7.1In most adult patients with hyperglycemia (w...
...ecommendation 7.2In select adult patients with...
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...9.1In adult patients with non-insulin treated...
...commendation 9.2In adult patients with T1...
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...ion 10.1In adults with no prior his...
...ommendation 10.2In adults with diabete...
...ion 10.3In adults with insulin-treated...