Skip to main content
. 2016 Nov 25;20:380. doi: 10.1186/s13054-016-1547-3

Table 2.

Glucose metrics

Variable YSIa OptiScanner®b
Number of measurements in the ICU 944 929
Number of measurements per patient, median (IQR) 9 (7–12) 9 (7–12)
Blood glucose level (mg/dl), median (IQR) 140.5 (122–169) 145 (123–169.5)
Blood glucose level (mg/dl), mean ± SD 150.6 ± 44.5 150.5 ± 42.2
Range of glucose (mg/dl) 59.7–484 57–436
Measurements of severe hypoglycemia (<40 mg/dl), number (%) 0 0
Patients with severe hypoglycemia, number (%) 0 0
Measurements of mild hypoglycemia (41–70 mg/dl), number (%) 5 (0.5%) 6 (0.6%)
Patients with mild hypoglycemia, number (%) 4 (5%) 3 (3%)
Measurements of severe hyperglycemia (>180 mg/dl), number (%) 167 (18%) 157 (17%)
Patients with severe hyperglycemia, number (%) 46 (52%) 47 (53%)

OptiScanner® glucose metrics are based on the measurements that have a corresponding value for YSI

aYSI 2300 STAT Plus analyzer (Yellow Spring Instruments, Yellow Spring, OH, USA)

bOptiscan Biomedical Corporation, Hayward, CA, USA

ICU intensive care unit, IQR interquartile range, SD standard deviation