Can someone help me understand why my patient, who was brought into the ER with ETOH (BAC 300)and was intubated, is now having high blood glucose levels 12 days later with no alcohol consumption? He has not been diagnosed with diabetes, but I would assume that his glucose is high due to the ETOH, but having been this long wouldn't that have resolved since everything is out of his system by now? Please help me understand the correlation between the two.
Can't tell you the specifics, but most probably metabolic derangement r/t liver damage... glyconeogenesis, etc. Hep C & ETOH are the hepatic deadly duo.
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Can someone help me understand why my patient, who was brought into the ER with ETOH (BAC 300)and was intubated, is now having high blood glucose levels 12 days later with no alcohol consumption? He has not been diagnosed with diabetes, but I would assume that his glucose is high due to the ETOH, but having been this long wouldn't that have resolved since everything is out of his system by now? Please help me understand the correlation between the two.
Co morbidities are Hep C and HTN.
Thank you.