A review of hypoglycemia and dextrose treatment in patients with cardiac arrest

. 2025 Mar;12(1):90-93.

doi: 10.15441/ceem.24.305. Epub 2025 Jan 14.

Glenn Goodwin¹, Michael Hinton¹, Moshe Bengio¹, Akash Patel¹, Nicholas Gaeto², Huy Tran^{1

3}, Sanaz Kashan³, Tony Zitek^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.
² Department of Primary Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
³ Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Modesto, CA, USA.

Glenn Goodwin et al. Clin Exp Emerg Med. 2025 Mar.

. 2025 Mar;12(1):90-93.

doi: 10.15441/ceem.24.305. Epub 2025 Jan 14.

Glenn Goodwin¹, Michael Hinton¹, Moshe Bengio¹, Akash Patel¹, Nicholas Gaeto², Huy Tran^{1

3}, Sanaz Kashan³, Tony Zitek^{4

5}

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, Miami, FL, USA.
² Department of Primary Care, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA.
³ Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente, Modesto, CA, USA.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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