Percentage of adult patients with a perioperative glucose >180 mg/dL with administration of insulin (IV or SubQ) or a glucose recheck within 90 minutes.

Surgical and anesthetic stress increases hyperglycemia incidence in both diabetics and non-diabetics.³ Perioperative hyperglycemia is mediated by the release of proinflammatory cytokines (e.g., TNF-alpha and IL-6) and elevated concentrations of catecholamines, growth hormone, glucagon, and glucocorticoids.⁴ These mediators induce metabolic alterations in carbohydrate balance that alter peripheral glucose uptake and utilization, increase gluconeogenesis, depress glycogenesis, and induce glucose intolerance and insulin resistance.  Hyperglycemia can also be drug induced (administration of steroids).

Acute hyperglycemia in the perioperative period is known to increase the incidence of wound infections, overall mortality, length of stay, acute kidney injury, and delayed wound healing. ^{2,5,7, 8-12} Use of insulin to correct perioperative hyperglycemia decreases the risk of hospital complications and mortality in cardiac and general surgery patients.^{6, 12} The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American Diabetes Association recommend a treatment threshold of 180 mg/dL in critically ill hospitalized patients and a preprandial blood glucose goal of 140 mg/dL in non-critically hospitalized ill patients.¹³ Patients undergoing anesthesia who are subject to tight glucose control are at greater risk of hypoglycemia as the effects of anesthesia can mask the symptoms of hypoglycemia and current methods of treatment and monitoring put patients at risk of overcorrection.¹ The threshold glucose level (greater than 180 mg/dL) is used for this measure to alleviate concerns that patients undergoing general anesthetics are at risk of overtreatment and hypoglycemia.¹

Preop start to PACU end

• All patients with glucose level greater than 180 mg/dL
• Patients with and without diagnosis of diabetes

• Age < 12 years
• ASA 5 & 6 including Organ Procurement (CPT: 01990)
• Cases with measure duration (Preop Start to PACU End) ≤ 30 minutes
• Cesarean Delivery Cases (determined by Obstetric Anesthesia Type value codes: 1, 2, 7)
• Glucose measurements > 180mg/dL within 90 minutes before measure end (see ‘Other Measure Build Details’ for more information)
• Labor Epidurals (determined by Obstetric Anesthesia Type value codes: 3 & 6 including obstetric non-operative procedures - CPT: 01958)
• Outpatient cases with Anesthesia Duration <4 hours long

• Administration of insulin within 90 minutes (either IV or sub Q routes) or
• Recheck of glucose level within 90 minutes

• Evaluate the following conditions for each high glucose. If *none* of the conditions are true for a given high glucose, the case is marked as flagged
  1. Another glucose value was resulted within 90 minutes of the high glucose = pass
  2. An insulin administration was given within 90 minutes of the high glucose = pass
  3. An insulin infusion is active when the high glucose was resulted = pass (Note: If no end time is available for an insulin infusion, the ‘measure end time’ will be considered the insulin infusion end time.)
  4. Insulin SQ adjustment: Insulin SQ was administered within 120 minutes before high glucose value = pass 
• If two blood glucose levels are documented in the same minute, the lower blood glucose will be considered for this measure
• Insulin doses sent to MPOG outside the measure time period will not be included for evaluation.
• All values mapped to glucose MPOG concepts with SI units (mmol/L) will be converted to mg/dL (mmol/L * 18.018 = mg/dL)

*This measure will include valid MPOG cases defined by the Is Valid Case phenotype. 

Not applicable.

Preop start to Anesthesia Start: The first anesthesia provider(s) signed into the case

Anesthesia Start to Anesthesia End: The provider(s) signed in at the first glucose recheck or first administration of insulin. If neither occurred, then the responsible provider is the one signed in 90 minutes after the high glucose measurement.

Anesthesia End to PACU End: The last anesthesia provider(s) signed into the case.

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