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Table 3 Deviations from insulin infusion protocol

From: Comparison of a nurse initiated insulin infusion protocol for intensive insulin therapy between adult surgical trauma, medical and coronary care intensive care patients

 

STICU (n = 162)

MICU (n = 110)

CCU (n = 94)

Started in a wrong column

27

15

15

Jumped a column

0

0

1

BG < 150 mg/dL when IIP started

4

2

1

Patients with deviation, n (%)

31 (19)

17 (15)

17 (18)

  1. BG, blood glucose