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Open Access
01.02.2014 | Poster presentation
Continuous prediction of glucose-level changes using an electronic nose in critically ill patients
verfasst von:
JH Leopold, RT Van Hooijdonk, LD Bos, T Winters, PJ Sterk, A Abu-Hanna, MJ Schultz
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2014
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Excerpt
Many if not most critically ill patients are treated with insulin during their stay in the ICU [
1]. Intensive monitoring of the blood glucose level is a prerequisite for efficient and safe insulin titrations in these patients [
2]. Current continuous glucose measurement techniques rely on subcutaneous glucose measurements [
3] or measurements in blood [
4]. We hypothesized that changes in volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations in exhaled breath reflect changes in the blood glucose level. Changes in VOC concentrations can be analyzed continuously using a so-called electronic nose (eNose) [
5]. Our aim was to investigate exhaled breath analysis to predict changes in glucose levels in intubated ICU patients. …