Insulin will safely reduce glucose levels in patients with acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and admission hyperglycemia.
Patients will be randomly assigned to either the control arm and will receive usual AMI care or the experimental arm, which will include routine AMI care as well as intensive therapy intervention. In addition to the capillary blood glucose measurements obtained to titrate insulin doses in the experimental arm patients, laboratory plasma glucose will be drawn in all patients at randomization, 10, 24, 48, and 72 hours post randomization, 7 days post randomization (or hospital discharge if that occurs first), and 30 days post randomization.
IV infusion of glulisine, SC injection of glargine
Adrogué, Buenos Aires, Argentina