Practical diabetes care / Rowan Hillson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillson, Rowan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diabetes--Treatment.

Diabetes.

Primary care (Medicine).

Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.

Patient Education as Topic.

Medical Subjects:

Diabetes Mellitus--therapy.

Patient Education as Topic.

Physical Description:

232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Diabetes care has changed enormously in the past few years. Diagnostic criteria have changed and there is strong evidence for the benefits of vigorous treatment of high blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, and other risk factors for complications. Without such care, there is a greater risk of disability or death. Patients rightly expect high standards of evidence-based care tailored to their personal needs.

General practitioners are well placed to provide good, local diabetes care. Practical Diabetes Care (second edition) provides a step-by-step guide to diabetes care for general practitioners and their teams. Patients may also find it helpful. 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. The new diagnostic criteria are explained and the bewildering range of new pills, insulins, and gadgets are clearly discussed with advice on choosing the right one for each patient. There are detailed sections on helping patients to manage diabetes in everyday life -- eating, exercise, work, and travel -- and there is extensive information about monitoring and adjusting glucose levels, and how to prevent and cope with emergencies. Practical Diabetes Care (second edition) focuses particularly on the prevention, detection, and treatment of diabetic tissue damage, including heart disease. There are chapters dedicated to children, the elderly, and patients from varied ethnic backgrounds.

Contents:

1 The path to diagnosis 1

2 The first steps 13

3 The aims of diabetes care 25

4 Diabetes education 35

5 Eating and drinking 41

6 Urine monitoring 52

7 Blood glucose testing 56

8 Oral hypoglycaemic treatment 65

9 Insulin treatment 76

10 A low blood glucose

hypoglycaemia 95

11 High blood glucose

hyperglycaemia 107

12 Exercise 115

13 Diabetic tissue damage 123

14 The diabetic foot 146

15 Growing up with diabetes 153

16 The family and the diabetic man or woman 159

17 Older people with diabetes 168

18 Diabetes in Asian and Afro-Caribbean people and other ethnic groups 173

19 Work 179

20 Travel 185

21 Diabetes in primary care 193

22 Diabetes charters 205

Appendix A Hillingdon Consensus Care Diabetes Project Guidelines 211

Appendix B Diabetes associations 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0192632906

OCLC:

50280074