Diabetic Ketoacidosis Updates: Titratable Insulin Infusions and Long-Acting Insulin Early

Table 4

Standard overlap vs. early addition of long-acting insulin to infusion.

Results
	Standard (n = 61)	Early insulin overlap (n = 49)	value
Primary endpoints
Duration of insulin infusion (hours), mean	27	44.5	<0.01
ICU LoS (days), mean	3.2	4.1	0.27
Hospital LoS (days), mean	10.2	9.3	0.75
Secondary endpoints
ICU survival (%)	95.1	93.9	0.78
Hospital survival (%)	90.2	93.9	0.48
Safety endpoints
Hypoglycemia (%)	37.7	44.9	0.45
Hypokalemia (%)	68.9	75.5	0.44

n = number.