Insulin drip policy

AJJKRN · Jan 6, 2015

I don't know if that could be done on a forum like this without outing the posters place of employment and getting in some sort of legal (or fired at least) trouble for sharing their entity's protocol without approval. I can say that my entity has at least 4 or more. A couple for our ICU's and a couple for the Med-Surg floors varying by either anion gap "titration" or just blood sugar results and DKA vs. Non-DKA. I would search EBP search engines through your library. Good luck and maybe someone here can legally post theirs here...maybe someone working in education?

MunoRN, RN · Jan 9, 2015

Are you referring to titration protocols? As more facilities transition to electronic drip rate calculators for insulin it's getting harder to find examples of written protocols. The Yale insulin drip protocol is often referred to as a good example of a protocol, but it's out of date now since the goal BG levels are too low (current EBP goal is

The protocol where I work is pretty simple: Titrate insulin gtt to keep BG 110.

SteveDE · Jan 16, 2015

Yes, more of a guide for titration, I think we have found some good examples to use that will work well for our facility. Thank you for the feedback!