[Neonatal hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus]
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Improving IV Insulin Administration in a Community Hospital
Published on: June 11, 2012
1INSERM, Nantes.
Insights
Neonatal hyperglycemia, often transient in premature infants, requires early insulin therapy. Current methods cannot predict long-term outcomes, necessitating a consistent treatment approach for all affected newborns.
Area of Science:
- Neonatology
- Pediatric Endocrinology
- Metabolic Disorders
Abstract:
Neonatal hyperglycaemia may be permanent or, more often, transient. Transient hyperglycaemia occurs mainly in premature and low-birth-weight neonates, especially if they are stressed or receive endovenous glucose. There is no clinical or biological sign allowing to predict these children future at the time of diagnosis, even if the seriousness of hyperglycemia, the collapse of insulin secretion, and the association to complex pathologies is more usual in permanent diabetes. This explains why the treatment must be the same, namely precocious insulin therapy.
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