Diabetes care [[electronic resource] ] : a practical manual / / Rowan Hillson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452798003321
• Autore: Hillson Rowan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0-19-175315-7; 1-283-58123-X; 9786613893680; 0-19-155112-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Collana: Oxford care manuals
• Disciplina: 616.46206
• Soggetti: Diabetics - Care; Diabetes - Treatment; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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