Ward monitoring 4.0: real-time metabolic insights from continuous glucose monitoring into perioperative organ dysfunction

Abstract

The now-routine clinical deployment of continuous glucose monitoring has demonstrated benefit in real-world settings. We make the case that continuous glucose monitoring can help re-examine, at scale, the role that (stress) hyperglycaemia plays in fuelling organ dysfunction after tissue trauma. Provided robust perioperative data do emerge, well-established continuous glucose monitoring technology could soon help transform the perioperative landscape.

Keywords: complications; continuous glucose monitoring; diabetes mellitus; hyperglycaemia; noncardiac surgery; perioperative care.