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 diabetes in all age groups. New diagnostic
criteria are explained, and the bewildering range of new
pills, insulins and gadgets are clearly discussed with
help in choosing the right one for your patient. There
are detailed sections on helping patients to manage
diabetes in every day life - eating, exercise, work and
travel. There is extensive advice on the monitoring and
adjustment of glucose levels, and how to prevent and
cope with emergencies, whether in the GP's surgery or
the intensive care unit.This book focuses particularly
on the prevention, detection and treatment of diabetic
tissue damage, including heart disease.Less
well-recognised but important tissue damage and its
management is also included. Specific chapters are
devoted to children, the elderly and those from varied
ethnic backgrounds, and men and women with diabetes.
Diabetes Care:a practical manual gently guides those who
wish to establish new diabetic services, and provides
more detailed specialist information for those who wish
to enhance the diabetes care they already
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