First fasting blood glucose on admission, mg/dL a 160.6 ± 75.2 206.3 ± 109.9 < 0.001 Total blood glucose, mg/dL a 185.6 ± 36.1 178.9 ± 54.3 0.002 ...

A sliding scale varies the dose of insulin based on blood glucose level. The higher your blood glucose the more insulin you take. The Sliding Scale method is more precise than fixed dose insulin in ...

Problem: Sliding scale insulin (SSI) is frequently used for inpatient management of hyperglycemia and is associated with a large number of medication errors and adverse events including hypoglycemia ...

Insulin therapy is an important part of treatment for people living with diabetes. Sliding scale insulin (SSI), once a prominent diabetes treatment, entails checking your blood sugar levels before ...

Medication Management: Diabetes Mellitus (PDF) addresses the differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, medications used to manage diabetes, and the recommendations against using sliding scale ...

Insulin can be a critical part of managing diabetes, but patients may not know all the ins and outs of using the medication effectively. Luckily, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) has plenty ...

Sliding scale fees are a type of tax or cost that can change depending on an associated factor. These fees are designed to capture value according to the movement of an underlying variable which ...

His glucose level was controlled with sliding scale insulin. The patient was placed nil per os (NPO) due to his inability to swallow. Intravenous fluids with normal saline were started. Psychiatry was ...

A hospitalized patient with diabetes mellitus has been receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) for a couple of weeks. Due to the medications he takes for a variety of illnesses, he often experiences ...

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SS patients who received oral hypoglycemics, insulin aspart mix, insulin detemir, insulin glargine, insulin glulisine, insulin NPH, or insulin 70/30; or TC patients who received oral hypoglycemics ...

Insulin therapy is an important part of treatment for people living with diabetes. Sliding scale insulin (SSI), once a prominent diabetes treatment, entails checking your blood sugar levels before ...