Putting Your Patients on the Pump
Karen M. Bolderman, "Putting Your Patients on the Pump"
English | ISBN: 1580404979 | 2013 | 128 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1580404979 | 2013 | 128 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
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,
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