Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 922-930 , November 2009

Intensive insulin therapy confers a similar survival benefit in the burn intensive care unit to the surgical intensive care unit

,Accepted 17 April 2009.

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 Presented in part at the 3rd Annual Academic Surgical Congress, Huntington Beach, California, February 13–15, 2008.

 Supported in part by a research a grant from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (to B.R.G.).

 B.R.G. and P.G. contributed equally to this publication.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00360-2

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.035

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 922-930 , November 2009

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