[Standardized nutritional intervention in hypoglycemic inpatients].
The ingestion of rapid absorption carbohydrates (RAC) can be useful to increase serum glucose. This sudy aimed to assess the effectiveness and applicability of nutritional intervention in hypoglycemic situations suffered by conscious inpatients in a general hospital who were receiving oral diet. Seventy-six patients were eligible. Hypoglycemia was defined as a capillary glucose level of > or =50 to < or =70 mg/dL. Nutritional intervention consisted in providing 15-4 g of RAC. The level of capillary glucose was checked after 15 to 20 minutes of the intervention. During the studied period, the rate of effectiveness of the nutritional intervention was 97.6%. Results show that the administration of RAC, a non-invasive method, was applicable in a general hospital and was also potentially effective in restoring capillary glucose levels in conscious hypoglycemic inpatients receiving an oral diet.
Unidade de Terapia Intensiva da Sociedade Beneficente de Senhoras do Hospital Sírio Libanês (SBS-HSL), São Paulo, Brasil. silmara.machado@hsl.org.br
Silmara Rodrigues
SR
Machado
Ana Lúcia Chalhoub Chediác
AL
Rodrigues
Sandra Cristine
SC
da Silva
Rafael de Oliveira
Rde O
Alvim
Paulo Caleb Júnior Lima
PC
Santos
D001786:Blood Glucose; D006801:Humans; D007003:Hypoglycemia; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007297:Inpatients; D007328:Insulin / Q000627:therapeutic use
D001786:Blood Glucose; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin