Inpatient hypoglycemia is a preventable complication that has been associated with increased hospital stay, health costs, mortality, and utilization of hospital resources resulting in patient dissatisfaction. More than 10% of the patients suffer from the hypoglycemic event at least once in the non-critical care hospital settings. This article reviews the present strategies the non-critical care hospitals can implement and e the safe and effective use of insulin to reduce the hypoglycemic incidents. A significant hypoglycemia is confirmed when glucose concentration is < 54mg/dl.
However, glucose concentration of ≤70mg/dl is an indication of hypoglycemia and diabetes regimen adjustment is expected. Although there is no specific threshold set for severe hypoglycemia, glucose concentration below 40 is considered as severe glycemia. However, these values vary from institution to institution…
