Hospital glucose control: safe and reliable glycemic control using enhanced model predictive control algorithm in medical intensive care unit patients.

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the performance of the enhanced Model Predictive Control (eMPC) algorithm for glycemic control in medical critically ill patients for the whole length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay. METHODS The trial was designed as a single-center, open, noncontrolled clinical investigation in a nine-bed medical ICU in a tertiary teaching hospital. In 20 patients, blood glucose (BG) was controlled with a laptop-based bedside version of the eMPC. Efficacy was assessed by percentage of time within the target range (4.4-6.1 mM; primary end point), mean BG, and BG sampling interval. Safety was assessed by the number of severe hypoglycemic episodes (<2.2 mM). RESULTS Twenty patients (69 +/- 11 years old; body mass index, 27.4 +/- 4.5 kg/m(2); APACHE II, 25.5 +/- 5.2) were included for a period of 7.3 days (median; interquartile range, 4.4-10.2 days) in the study. Time within target range was 58.12 +/- 10.05% (mean +/- SD). For all patients with at least 7 days in the ICU, there was no statistically significant difference between the daily mean percentage of times in target range in respect of the averages. Mean arterial BG was 5.8 +/- 0.5 mM, insulin requirement was 101.3 +/- 50.7 IU/day, and mean carbohydrate intake (enteral and parenteral nutrition) was 176.4 +/- 61.9 g/day. Three hypoglycemic episodes occurred in three subjects, corresponding to a rate of 0.02 per treatment day. CONCLUSIONS In our single-center, noncontrolled study the eMPC algorithm was a safe and reliable method to control BG in critically medical ICU patients for the whole length of ICU stay.

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