Diabetes care : a practical manual / / Dr Rowan Hillson

• Autore: Hillson Rowan
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (497 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.46206
• Soggetto topico: Diabetes - Treatment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Diabetes Care: Apractical Manual""; ""Series page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Symbols and abbreviations""; ""Chapter 1 - Is it diabetes?""; ""Chapter 2 - Assessing a person with diabetes""; ""Chapter 3 - The aims of diabetes care""; ""Chapter 4 - Diabetes education""; ""Chapter 5 - Healthy eating and drinking (including management of obesity)""; ""Chapter 6 - Urine testing""; ""Chapter 7 - Blood glucose and ketone testing""; ""Chapter 8 - Non-insulin medications""; ""Chapter 9 - Insulin"" ; ""Chapter 10 - Low blood glucose: hypoglycaemia""""Chapter 11 - High blood glucose: hyperglycaemia""; ""Chapter 12 - Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state (HHS)""; ""Chapter 13 - Exercise""; ""Chapter 14 - Diabetic tissue damage""; ""Chapter 15 - Diabetic foot problems""; ""Chapter 16 - Diabetes in young people""; ""Chapter 17 - Diabetes in women""; ""Chapter 18 - Diabetes in men""; ""Chapter 19 - Older people with diabetes""; ""Chapter 20 - Diabetes in different ethnic groups""; ""Chapter 21 - Work""; ""Chapter 22 - Travel"" ; ""Chapter 23 - Psychological and social aspects of diabetes""""Chapter 24 - Diabetes care in hospital""; ""Chapter 25 - Local diabetes care""; ""Chapter 26 - Links""; ""Index""
• Sommario/riassunto: Diabetes is common, chronic, complicated, and costly both to the patient and to the state. It causes distress, disability, and premature death. Most diabetes complications can be prevented or reduced. Diabetes Care Second Edition is a concise and easy-to-read reference source for all aspects of care in the management and understanding of diabetes.This pocketbook 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Diabetes care
• ISBN: 0-19-177452-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460205003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford care manuals.