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Diabetes care : a practical manual / Rowan Hillson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford care manualsPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 521 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191551123
  • 0191551120
  • 128358123X
  • 9781283581233
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diabetes care.DDC classification:
  • 616.46206 22
LOC classification:
  • RC660 .H552 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • WK 39
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction; Abbreviations; 1 Is it diabetes?; 2 Assessing a person with diabetes; 3 The aims of diabetes care; 4 Diabetes education; 5 Healthy eating and drinking; 6 Urine testing; 7 Blood glucose and ketone testing; 8 Non-insulin medications; 9 Insulin treatments; 10 Low blood glucose: hypoglycaemia; 11 High blood glucose: hyperglycaemia; 12 Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar non-ketotic hyperglycaemic state (HONK); 13 Exercise; 14 Diabetic tissue damage; 15 Diabetic foot problems; 16 Diabetes in young people; 17 Diabetes in women; 18 Diabetes in men.
19 Older people with diabetes20 Diabetes in different ethnic groups; 21 Work; 22 Travel; 23 Psychological and social aspects of diabetes; 24 Diabetes care in hospital; 25 District diabetes care; 26 Useful contacts; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
Summary: Diabetes Care: a practical manual is a concise and easy-to-read reference source for all aspects of care in the management and understanding of diabetes. This book provides a step-by-step guide to diabetes care for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals working in primary, community and secondary care; particularly general practitioners, practice nurses, diabetes specialist nurses, junior hospital doctors, and ward nurses, and pharmacists. The author draws on practical experience and takes a realistic, common-sense approach to the assessment, education, monitoring and treatment of.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Introduction; Abbreviations; 1 Is it diabetes?; 2 Assessing a person with diabetes; 3 The aims of diabetes care; 4 Diabetes education; 5 Healthy eating and drinking; 6 Urine testing; 7 Blood glucose and ketone testing; 8 Non-insulin medications; 9 Insulin treatments; 10 Low blood glucose: hypoglycaemia; 11 High blood glucose: hyperglycaemia; 12 Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar non-ketotic hyperglycaemic state (HONK); 13 Exercise; 14 Diabetic tissue damage; 15 Diabetic foot problems; 16 Diabetes in young people; 17 Diabetes in women; 18 Diabetes in men.

19 Older people with diabetes20 Diabetes in different ethnic groups; 21 Work; 22 Travel; 23 Psychological and social aspects of diabetes; 24 Diabetes care in hospital; 25 District diabetes care; 26 Useful contacts; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Diabetes Care: a practical manual is a concise and easy-to-read reference source for all aspects of care in the management and understanding of diabetes. This book provides a step-by-step guide to diabetes care for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals working in primary, community and secondary care; particularly general practitioners, practice nurses, diabetes specialist nurses, junior hospital doctors, and ward nurses, and pharmacists. The author draws on practical experience and takes a realistic, common-sense approach to the assessment, education, monitoring and treatment of.

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