Based on U.S. measuring scales, this handbook covers: why, when and how to use an insulin pump; calculating daily doses, basal rates and boluses; using Humalog in a pump; carbohydrate counting and factors; pattern recognition; safe control of high and low blood sugars; pump use for children, teens and during pregnancy, and more.
Table of Contents: 1) Benefits of an Insulin Pump, 2) All About CGMs, 3) Select a Pump and Infusion Set, 4) Carb Counting, 5) Reach Your Glucose Goals, 6) Start on a Pump, 7) Essentials of the Bolus Calculator, 8) Tools for Better BC Settings, 9) Your TDD, 10) Choose, Check and Change Your Basal Rates, 11) Check and Change Your Carb Factor, 12) Choose, Check and Change Your Correction Factor, 13) Unwanted Glucose Patterns, 14) Real-Time CGM, 15) Stop Highs from the Infusion Set, 16) Hypoglycemia, 17) Ketoacidosis, 18) Erratic Readings, 19) Exercise and Diabetes, 20) Children and Teens, 21) Pumps in Type 1.5 and Type 2 Diabetes
Pumping Insulin is a complete guide for achieving excellent control on a smart insulin pump. Pump users and health professionals will benefit from comprehensive, easy-to-use information, focused on the latest features in today's pumps and CGMs. Get the most out of your pump!
This title combines a detailed discussion of the evidence-base for all aspects of CSII in adults and children with a practical guide to treating people with diabetes using insulin pump therapy.
The insulin pump has opened a whole new world for people with diabetesmore flexibility in what and when they eat and better blood sugar control, too. Smart Pumping integrates this new successful technology with the physical and psychological aspects of diabetes care, and helps patients adopt the insulin pump into their self-care regime. This book combines a comprehensive medical approach toward intensive diabetes management and pump therapy with a patient-centered appreciation of the real-life challenges and frustrations. Howard Wolpert, M.D., is an instructor in medicine at the Harvard Medical School Joslin Diabetes Center and is also in charge of the pump clinic there. He has written extensively on the use of insulin pumps.
The current epidemic of diabetes, obesity and related disorders is a driving force in the development of new technologies. Technological advances offer great new opportunities for the treatment of these chronic diseases. This review presents an update of developments that promise to revolutionize the treatment of diabetes. It examines hospital and outpatient care, intensive insulin therapy, blood glucose monitoring and innovative steps towards the construction of an artificial pancreas. Providing a comprehensive overview on the latest advances, this volume of Frontiers in Diabetes will be of particular interest to all healthcare providers involved in the daily management of patients with diabetes or related diseases.
In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised Putting Your Patients on the Pump offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump. Ten chapters provide an in-depth description of insulin pump therapy advantages and disadvantages, pump and infusion set options and selection, pump candidate basics, getting the patient ready, pump start-up, pump therapy management, other considerations (e.g., dining out, alcohol, exercise and physical activity, intimacy, managing sick days, stress, travel, weight change, menses and menopause, pregnancy, pediatrics, and older patients), resources, tips from pump experts, and insulin pumps of the future. Filled with checklists and step-by-step instructions, Putting Your Patients on the Pump is the ideal resource for health care professionals with expertise in diabetes care who wish to successfully start and maintain diabetes patients on insulin pump therapy.
Everything you need to know for success on a smart pump. Comprehensive guide to using smart pump features like bolus on board (BOB), duration of insulin action, carb and correction factors. Clear, logical explanations of what to do and how to do it. Dozens of clever pump tricks and new pump concepts. If you are considering a pump or already on one, you definitely want to read this book!
Using Insulin shows how to set, test, and adjust fast-acting and long-acting insulin doses for those with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes. It covers Lantus, Detemir, Humalog and Novolog insulins. Helpful chapters explain carb counting, the glycemic index, safe exercise, insulin use in pregnancy and gestational diabetes, combining insulin with diabetes medications, dosage guidelines for children and teens, prevention and treatment for highs and lows, and reversing hypoglycemia unawareness.
"The purpose of this book is to give you practical tips, including the knowledge and the skills to maximize insulin pump therapy and continuous glucose monitoring, if that is what you and your health care provider decide is best for you or your child. The goal is to enable you to make your journey through life with diabetes as successful and as free from short and long term complications, and with as minimal burden, as possible"--