Hyperglycemia-Am I A Control Freak.pptVIP

Copyright ? 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Hyperglycemia-Am I A Control Freak? COPYRIGHT ? 2013, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED From the Publishers of Terms of Use The Consult Guys? slide sets are owned and copyrighted by the American College of Physicians (ACP). All text, graphics, trademarks, and other intellectual property incorporated into the slide sets remain the sole and exclusive property of ACP. The slide sets may be used only by the person who downloads or purchases them and only for the purpose of presenting them during not-for-profit educational activities. Users may incorporate the entire slide set or selected individual slides into their own teaching presentations but may not alter the content of the slides in any way or remove the ACP copyright notice. Users may make print copies for use as hand-outs for the audience the user is personally addressing but may not otherwise reproduce or distribute the slides by any means or media, including but not limited to sending them as e-mail attachments, posting them on Internet or Intranet sites, publishing them in meeting proceedings, or making them available for sale or distribution in any unauthorized form, without the express written permission of the ACP. Unauthorized use of the Consult Guys? slide sets constitutes copyright infringement. Dear Consult Gurus; I need your sage advice regarding our newest associate who is being considered for contract renewal in our partnership track. He joined us in 2010 after completion of his residency and now does most of the care of our hospitalized patients. While he seems to be excellent I have a major gripe with his mismanagement of our seriously ill patients in the ICU. My complaint relates to his management of our ICU patients who develop hyperglycemia. Based on my training (I began practice 10 years ago) I’ve made sure that our critically ill ICU patients have their glucose tightly controlled with a target glucose 80-110 mg/dl and I’ve used intensive insulin ther