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Diabetes Care
A Practical Manual
Rowan Hillson MBE MD FRCP
536 pages
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10 black and white line drawings
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180x100mm
978-0-19-921808-0
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Paperback
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09 October 2008
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- An easy-to-read common sense guide to diabetes diagnosis, care and management, covering both primary and secondary care
- Provides rapid access to information about the full range of diabetes problems, including emergencies
- Features tailored information on the treatment of diabetes in men, women, young people, the elderly and those from different ethnic groups
- Up-to-date with the most recent studies into diabetes allowing evidence-based care
- Reviews the latest treatment options, including oral hypoglycaemic drugs and their uses, and new insulins
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 diabetes in all age groups. New diagnostic criteria are explained, and the bewildering range of new pills, insulins and gadgets are clearly discussed with help in choosing the right one for your patient. There are detailed sections on helping patients to manage diabetes in every day life - eating, exercise, work and travel. There is extensive advice on the monitoring and adjustment of glucose levels, and how to prevent and cope with emergencies, whether in the GP's surgery or the intensive care unit. This book focuses particularly on the prevention, detection and treatment of diabetic tissue damage, including heart disease. Less well-recognised but important tissue damage and its management is also included. Specific chapters are devoted to children, the elderly and those
from varied ethnic backgrounds, and men and women with diabetes.
Diabetes Care:a practical manual gently guides those who wish to establish new diabetic services, and provides more detailed specialist information for those who wish to enhance the diabetes care they already provide.
Readership: Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals; particularly general practitioners, practice nurses, hospital doctors and nurses (e.g. on diabetes wards), diabetic specialist nurses, dieticians, chiropodists, pharmacists, medical students, patients and carers.
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Rowan Hillson MBE MD FRCP, Consultant Physician, Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge, UK
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"Reviews from previous diabetes title by this author This book is well written, easy to understand and contains a wealth of knowledge for health professionals." - Practice Nurse, 2004
"I would recommend this book for someone who (1) is starting to care for patients with diabetes, and (2) already has the theoretical knowledge of diabetes and who needs specific, practical guidelines on how to diagnose, treat, educate and follow-up individuals with diabetes." - Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association 1997
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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 treatments
9: Insulin treatments
10: Low blood glucose - hypoglycaemia
11: High blood glucose - hyperglycaemia
12: Diabetic ketoacidosis and non-ketotic hyperosmolar hyperglycaemia (DKA and 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
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