Continuous glucose monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit: not quite ready for 'plug and play'.
Continuous glucose monitoring in the neonatal intensive care unit: not quite ready for 'plug and play'.
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新生儿重症监护病房的连续血糖监测:尚未做好“即插即用”的准备。
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10.1136/archdischild-2018-315899
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2019
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Rozance,PaulJoseph
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Hernandez,TeriL;HayJr,WilliamW;Rozance,PaulJoseph
In the very low birthweight (VLBW) infant population, high glucose concentrations have been associated with increased mortality, brain injury, retinopathy of prematurity and worse neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, trials to prevent or treat hyperglycaemia in this population with continuous insulin infusions or a combination of insulin and/or reductions in the glucose infusion rate have been complicated by more frequent episodes of low glucose concentrations. While the long-term significance of these episodes is unknown, most would agree that they should be avoided during treatment of hyperglycaemia with insulin. Emerging data further associate increased glycaemic variability with impaired longterm outcomes. Use of continuous (interstitial) glucose monitoring (CGM) in very preterm, VLBW infants has the potential to minimise the incidence and severity of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia and increase glycaemic stability during critical developmental periods, providing new opportunities to improve long-term neurocognitive outcomes in these children by preventing these common but potentially harmful metabolic disorders. Thomson et al 1 report the results of a single-centre study in which feasibility of CGM for very preterm infants was assessed. The study was divided into two phases. In the first phase, accuracy was assessed by comparison of real-time (RT) CGM (Paradigm Veo, Medtronic MiniMed) to point-of-care (POC) blood glucose concentrations (Statstrip, Nova Biomedical) in 20 infants. In the second phase, a pilot study was conducted in which 20 infants were randomised to unblinded RT-CGM in conjunction with a clinical guideline dictating care decisions based on the CGM values versus standard neonatal care. In the standard care arm, infant interstitial glucose concentrations were measured with a blinded retrospective recording CGM (iPro2, Medtronic MiniMed) while glucose was managed using the standard of care hospital protocol. The goal of these studies was to generate data to inform a randomised trial evaluating the impact of unblinded RT-CGM in the care of these infants. Using a single highly accurate POC glucose measurement method for all calibrations improved the agreement between RT-CGM and intermittently sampled glucose concentration compared with the authors' previous report. 2 Moreover, the results from this study are similar to other studies 3 4: the CGM sensor was well tolerated, was acceptable to staff caring for the infants, and when combined with an algorithm informing clinical decisions based on RT-CGM data, allowed clinicians to keep glucose concentrations in these preterm infants within a more narrow range. This last feature, combined with the ability of CGM to uncover episodes of occult hypoglycaemia, is an important reason why the use of CGM in the care of the VLBW infant has been considered. CGM was initially developed for use in adults and older children with diabetes mellitus as a way to personalise treatment. Typically, for this purpose, CGM devices did not provide glucose concentrations in real time to the patient. People with diabetes managed blood glucose concentrations using a combination of intermittent POC glucose fingersticks, dietary/lifestyle modifications and medications while glucose concentrations were recorded with a CGM. Retrospectively, the recorded CGM data were analysed according to algorithms that incorporated the POC glucose concentrations to determine patterns of glycaemia that were used to assess responses to treatments. Over the past 20 years, these biosensors and algorithms have undergone impressive technological revisions that have resulted in higher …