insulin injection practicesknowledge enhancementquasi-experimental studytailored health educationtype 2 diabetes mellitusType 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) patients often exhibit gaps in knowledge and improper practices regarding insulin injection techniques. This quasi-experimental study aimed to assess the ...
Conclusion: Brazilian patients use syringes more and pens less, inject with larger needles and have more lipohy‑ pertrophy when compared to Latin America and World data. Their re-use of needles and syringes is also high. This study showed that in Brazil, teaching of proper injection ...
Background: Although coaching patients on the optimal way of injecting insulin is an integral part of patient education, clinical observations suggest that a significant number of patients do not change the site of insulin injection. This puts them at an increased risk of lipodystrophy, a dermatolog...
Aim: This study aimed to provide information on insulin usage in Nigeria. Patients and Methods: The study was carried out in the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Lagos, Nigeria. Participants were recruited from patients receiving...
1.A polypeptide hormone that is secreted by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas and functions in the regulation of carbohydrate and fat metabolism, especially the conversion of glucose to glycogen, which lowers the blood glucose level. It consists of two linked polypeptide...
Evidence for Questions by Diabetes Educators When Teaching Insulin Injection in Clinical Practice 来自 学术范 喜欢 0 阅读量: 19 作者: JR Lee 摘要: International injection recommendations for patients with diabetes have recently been published and have identified specific recommendations for health care ...
Recognize anxiety related to test results, and be supportive of perceived loss of independence and fear of shortened life expectancy. Discuss the implications of abnormal test results on the patient’s lifestyle. Provide teaching and information regarding the clinical implications of the test results,...
(yes/no), consideration of injection unneces- sary (yes/no), inability to eat (yes/no), and adverse events, such as hypoglycemia and weight gain); among nonper- sistent patients, the reasons for treatment discontinuation were recorded, including: hypoglycemic events (yes/no), normalization ...
Injection sites for insulin include the upper arm, antero-lateral upper thigh, abdomen, and buttocks.5Needles should be inserted at a straight-in, 90° angle to the skin surface. 4-mm and 5-mm needle lengths allow for a single-handed, no-pinch technique, which gives more patients the opt...
Patients using insulin pumps can continue with their normal routine of basal and bolus doses, and they can change the time setting on their pump once reaching the destination. It may be safer to allow blood glucose levels to run slightly higher than normal for the first day or so rather th...