Prediction of recovery time from hypoglycemia in patients with insulin overdose

摘要

References(14) Cited-By(6) Insulin overdose results in prolonged hypoglycemia. We hypothesized that if a huge amount of insulin is subcutaneously injected, the duration of hypoglycemia depends on the dose of insulin rather than the type of insulin. We conducted a literature review of insulin overdose and 33 cases were included in this study. We assessed the correlation between recovery time from hypoglycemia and insulin dose. As a result, there was a significant correlation between recovery time from hypoglycemia and insulin dose (r = 0.88, p ~45 h. This equation may be useful to predict the duration of glucose supplementation for treatment of insulin overdose.