Diabetes care : a practical manual

Diabetes care : a practical manual / Rowan Hillson.

"This care manual provides a step-by-step guide to diabetes care for doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals working in primary, community, and secondary care. The author draws on practical experience taking a common-sense approach to the assessment, education, monitoring, and treat...

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Main Author: Hillson, Rowan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Oxford care manuals.
Subjects:
Diabetes > Treatment > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Diabetes.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Endocrinology & Metabolism.
Diabetes > Treatment
manuals (instructional materials)
handbooks.
Handbooks and manuals
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Series page; Diabetes Care: Apractical Manual; Copyright page; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Symbols and abbreviations; Chapter 1
  • Is it diabetes?; Chapter 2
  • Assessing a person with diabetes; Chapter 3
  • The aims of diabetes care; Chapter 4
  • Diabetes education; Chapter 5
  • Healthy eating and drinking (including management of obesity); Chapter 6
  • Urine testing; Chapter 7
  • Blood glucose and ketone testing; Chapter 8
  • Non-insulin medications; Chapter 9
  • Insulin; Chapter 10
  • Low blood glucose: hypoglycaemia; Chapter 11
  • High blood glucose: hyperglycaemia
  • Chapter 12
  • Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS)Chapter 13
  • Exercise; Chapter 14
  • Diabetic tissue damage; Chapter 15
  • Diabetic foot problems; Chapter 16
  • Diabetes in young people; Chapter 17
  • Diabetes in women; Chapter 18
  • Diabetes in men; Chapter 19
  • Older people with diabetes; Chapter 20
  • Diabetes in different ethnic groups; Chapter 21
  • Work; Chapter 22
  • Travel; Chapter 23
  • Psychological and social aspects of diabetes; Chapter 24
  • Diabetes care in hospital; Chapter 25
  • Local diabetes care; Chapter 26
  • Links; Index

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