WARD Glucose Pilot

• Adult patients (≥18 years) admitted to Rigshospitalet or Bispebjerg Hospital for major abdominal surgery (e.g. colonic resections, gastrectomy, hepatic resection etc.) or major orthopedic surgery (e.g. hip-fracture, hip and knee-arthroplasty) or major arterial vascular surgery (e.g. aortic aneurysm, iliac or femoral bypass etc.)
• Estimated duration of surgery ≥1 hour and at least one expected overnight stay postoperatively

AND

● Type 1 diabetes (Clinically defined: insulin initiated at diabetes onset and treatment with multiple doses of insulin or continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion) (n=20)

OR

● Type 2 diabetes treated with insulin (Clinically defined: treatment with diet or oral antidiabetic drugs for at least 6 months before insulin was started) (n =20)

OR

● Type 2 diabetes treated with oral antihyperglycemic drugs and/or GLP-1 analogs (n=20)

OR

● No diabetes mellitus (excluded by an admission HbA1c <48 mmol/mol) (n=20)