Sliding scale insulin therapy uses your pre-meal blood sugar level to determine insulin dosage. Research indicates sliding scale insulin therapy is ineffective at managing blood sugar levels.

Insulin is the foundation of treatment for many people with diabetes. If you’re a diabetic, your body either can’t produce enough insulin or can’t use insulin efficiently. With this method, you take a ...

Background: Development of hyperglycemia during hospitalization is an area of concern in patients with and without diabetes mellitus. Tight glycemic control has been debated for critically ill and ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 4, 2006) − If you are not diabetic and you are hospitalized, your blood sugar level is probably the last thing on your mind. But the fact is that high blood sugar during ...

A quarter of newly admitted nursing home residents who receive insulin for type 2 diabetes are treated using a contested regimen, a new study of Veterans Affairs facilities finds. Up to 33% of ...

A decade ago, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) updated treatment guidelines for hospital patients outside the intensive care ...

Glytec’s Glucommander electronic glucose management system (eGMS) helped the Kaweah Delta hospital shift its standard of care to basal-bolus insulin, explained Raymie McFarland, vice president of ...

New research presented at the AACE 26th Annual Congress further validates that use of Glytec’s eGlycemic Management System ® eliminates barriers to adoption of basal bolus insulin and produces ...

diabetic surgery prep Basal insulin, with or without nutritional correction, is the best approach to manage blood glucose in noncritically ill surgical patients. Diabetes, whether diagnosed or ...

SS patients who received oral hypoglycemics, insulin aspart mix, insulin detemir, insulin glargine, insulin glulisine, insulin NPH, or insulin 70/30; or TC patients who received oral hypoglycemics, ...