Impact of dextrose supplementation on intraoperative blood glucose levels in pediatric patients undergoing major surgeries under general anesthesia with caudal analgesia by Sruthi C. Babu, Dimple E. Thomas, Reshmy Thomas, Geethu Sebastian, Lakshmi Kumar

Subjects: “…key messages: caudal analgesia could attenuate the stress response and lower the blood glucose levels. in our study, we observed that children undergoing major surgeries with caudal analgesia do not need supplemental dextrose for correction of hypoglycemia. additional dextrose could increase blood sugars at the end of surgery.…”
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