Diabetes care : a practical manual / Rowan Hillson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hillson, Rowan.

Series:

Oxford care manuals.

Oxford care manuals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diabetics--Care.

Diabetics.

Diabetes--Treatment.

Diabetes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (536 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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 diabetes 20 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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-175315-7

1-283-58123-X

9786613893680

0-19-155112-0

OCLC:

801363533