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Letter to all NHS Diabetes teams and Covid 19
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AJLang
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Hi Benny if you use your fingers to enlarge it on an iPad or increase the zoom on a laptop it should be legible. I saved them as photos from Partha Kar’s twitter account. But if google Partha Kar twitter and go down the page you should find it there. I hope this helps.
Robin
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I was a bit alarmed by the potential shortage of IV 'sliding scale' equipment, and the suggestion that ordinary subcutaneous insulin, or even intramuscular injections are used instead, but I just had a quick Google, which threw up a couple of studies on DKA, which suggested that the outcome using normal injections isn’t any worse than using IV. Someone’s got to calculate the dose for you though, and this is always at the back of my mind. (Control freak? Moi?)
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trophywench
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Yeah I went apesh*t before they operated to put my kneecap back together because they were going to set it at 2u/hr WHAAAAT? Normal basal rate for me, 10 point something units a day!
After a LOT of grumbling they agreed 1u/hr. Couldn't wait to get the ruddy thing disconnected! Admittedly I needed 3 x the amount of insulin I usually had for a longer time than I thought I would thereafter, and did have scary high ketones for a few days until me and the Staff Nurse got it cracked.
God only knows how much insulin any of us might need with COVID19, because I can't even guess how much I would - and neither can any of us, hence we are all in the NHS's hands and can only hope whoever is doing our BGs, has a brain!
After a LOT of grumbling they agreed 1u/hr. Couldn't wait to get the ruddy thing disconnected! Admittedly I needed 3 x the amount of insulin I usually had for a longer time than I thought I would thereafter, and did have scary high ketones for a few days until me and the Staff Nurse got it cracked.
God only knows how much insulin any of us might need with COVID19, because I can't even guess how much I would - and neither can any of us, hence we are all in the NHS's hands and can only hope whoever is doing our BGs, has a brain!
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