Key Features of this book:
- Uses an outline format for each chapter with algorithms, charts, tables, and drawings that highlight critical information
- Outline format ensures you'll find information quickly and easily, even in the most demanding circumstances.
- Organized information into a convenient, pocket-sized format.
- Provides a general background: a rationale for optimal glycemia control in diabetes and standards of care, physiology of insulin secretion and blood glucose regulation, and pharmacokinetics of the available insulin preparations.
- Applies the above principles to specific patient populations: Type 1 and type 2 diabetes, children, inpatients, pregnant women, and patients with hyperglycemic emergencies and co-morbid conditions.
- Addresses prevention and therapy of hypoglycemia, insulin pumps, dietary aspects and exercise during insulin therapy.