Reprinted with permission from Amy Tenderich of www.diabetesmine.com.
Oooh, here's one I hadn't heard of before: EndoTool Glucose Management, "a solution to the problem of how to effectively and safely control blood glucose for critically ill patients after surgery" -- from a company called MD Scientific.
Glucose control for hospitalized patients is apparently notoriously bad, which (as you can imagine) leads to all sorts of problems:
"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in...
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