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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:
Levy, David
Format:
eBook
Language:
English
Published:
Newark :
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,
2015.
Series:
New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Diabetes
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Table of Contents:
Intro
Title page
Copyright
Preface
Abbreviations
PART 1 Basics
1 Classification of diabetes
Phenotypic features of classical Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes
2 Targets for glycaemic control in hospital
Myocardial infarction (Chapters 13 and 14)
Stroke
ICU/HDU
Surgical patients (Chapter 27)
References
3 Diagnosis of diabetes in hospitalised patients
Stress hyperglycaemia
4 Nomenclature
Capillary blood glucose
VRIII (Variable Rate Intravenous Insulin Infusion, 'sliding scale' in the UK)
HbA1c (glycated haemoglobin)
References
5 Outline of physiology
Insulin actions
Diabetic ketoacidosis (Chapter 9)
Insulin resistance
Renal disease
Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state
Hypoglycaemia (Chapters 11 and 26)
Further reading
6 Diabetes specialist nurses: roles and responsibilities
PART 2 Acute diabetes problems
7 History taking in patients with diabetes
Type of diabetes/diagnosis (Chapter 1)
Duration of diabetes
Treatment (Chapter 24)
Complications
8 Assessment and initial management of patients presenting with high blood glucose levels to an emergency department
Type 1 diabetes intercepted early In its course
Poorly controlled patients with known Type 1 diabetes
Newly presenting Type 2 diabetes
Patients attending the ED with high blood glucose levels
9 Diabetic ketoacidosis
Give soluble insulin intravenously at 6 U/hr
Confirm the diagnosis
Indicators of severity (Table 9.2)
Overall management priorities
ASK THE FOLLOWING after diagnosis, initial assessment and immediate treatment
Acute management
up to 4 hours
Management from 4-12 hours
Check electrolytes at 8 hours
Management from 12-24 hours
Planning for discharge
Further reading
10 Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS)
Confirm the diagnosis (Table 10.1)
Indicators of severity (Table 10.2)
Management priorities (Table 10.3)
Correcting serum [Na+] for prevailing glucose
ask THE FOLLOWING after diagnosis, initial assessment and treatment
Complete any 'routine' investigations
Additional history
Prescriptions
Continuing management up to 24-48 hours
Continuing management
usually after 24 hours
11 Managing acute hypoglycaemia in the emergency department
Treatment (see Chapter 26)
PART 3 Acute medical and surgical problems commonly complicated by diabetes
12 Presentation of cardiac disease in diabetic patients
Features of ACS (Box 12.1)
Heart failure
13 Acute coronary syndromes and stroke
ACS
Practicalities of blood glucose control in ACS patients (Figure 13.1)
Stroke
14 Secondary prevention after ACS
Table of checklist items (Table 14.1)
15 Acute pancreatitis
Hyperglycaemia during and after AP
Abdominal pain and hyperglycaemia
Management of diabetes
16 Infections in diabetes
Soft tissue infections
TREATMENT (Table 16.1)
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