Endocrine Abstracts

Episodes of in-hospital hypoglycaemia are uncommon but serious events, which cost the NHS financially and cost the patient in terms of poor clinical outcomes, and rarely, mortality. The National Patient Safety Agency reported that in 2007, one in four adult diabetics experienced an episode of hypoglycaemia whilst in hospital. Moreover, one in 30 required i.v. glucose or i.m. glucagon therapy, and between 2003 and 2009 there were four deaths involving insulin overdose2</su...