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INTRODUCTION. Tight glycemic control (TGC) has shown benefits in cardiac surgery ICU patients. STAR (Stochastic TARgeted) is a flexible, model-based TGC protocol accounting for patient variability with a stochastically derived maximum 5% risk of blood glucose (BG) below 90 mg/dL.
OBJECTIVES. To assess the safety, efficacy and clinical workload of the STAR TGC controller in pilot trials