Evidence · Randomised trial
Real-time continuous glucose monitoring reduces the duration of hypoglycemia episodes: a randomized trial in very low birth weight neonates.
- Hypoglycaemia
- Medical
- Metabolic, endocrine and renal
- Nursing
This paper is from 2015, more than five years ago. Newer evidence may have been published since.
Summary
Randomised trial in 48 very low birth weight neonates comparing real-time continuous glucose monitoring with intermittent capillary glucose testing over the first three days of life. The intermittent group also wore a blinded monitor to detect missed hypoglycaemia episodes. Intermittent testing missed many episodes, and real-time monitoring allowed carbohydrate supply to be tailored and reduced the duration of hypoglycaemia. The clinical significance of these differences remains to be established.
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