Thank you i really needed this video...im a student nurse and just learning about the sliding scale regime....is there any other key points i should know when taking care of patients on a insulin sliding scale and is it only rapid acting insulins that we give to patients on the sliding scale?
Yes! Long-acting insulin takes too long to bring the blood glucose down. I'd also make sure your patient gets lots of water to get the insulin into the bloodstream and to get the blood sugar out of the bloodstream and through the kidneys and excreted from the body as rapidly as possible. The doctor at one point calls this insulin "regular" insulin. "Regular insulin" or "Toronto" is an older insuiin and it takes longer to work than rapid acting does. Humolog, Novo rapide, Apidra and Fiasp are the fast-acting insulins. I use Fiasp now because it is in and out of the body in 3 hours. @Chantal Murray You're a great nursing student. You ask lots of questions. By the way, nurses also don't want their patients to have a bad low so they tend to skimp on the insulin injected, but if you follow the charts the hospital provides, you can't go wrong, I guess.
I got handed 100 units for my kid and expected to use this for the sliding scale. I don't think I have the correct needle!!! I just came from the hospital for my kid. Can you let me know if I am correct that I wasn't given the right needle for the slide scale??? 100 units DO NOT HAVE ONE DIDGET NUMBERS!!!
Pharmacy major here. You explained this topic better in 6 minutes than one of my teachers did in 4 years
whilst listening to your calm clear explanations, I am better equipped to understand new things. thank you Dr Carlo.
Thank you so much! You explained it so well!!
Thank you for this clarification!
Very good! Thank you
Learned better with u than with my nursing lecturer
Thank You Dr...I just starting using Humalog and Toujeo Glargine
Thaknk U for clear explanation. Pl can U tell 1 unit can metabolize how many gms of carbohydrates.
Doc, is sliding scale done every 2 hourly?
Doc, my mom sugar just keep going to 300 hundreds with the 2 units sliding scale. Confused bad what to do to keep it down.
I'm a type 1 diabetic. Will the sliding scale system work for me?
Do you have a conversion to mmol?
Sir I want to know one thing if sugar levels are in below range then how much units insulin should be given :
Sugar Range -
100-150
150-200
Thank you i really needed this video...im a student nurse and just learning about the sliding scale regime....is there any other key points i should know when taking care of patients on a insulin sliding scale and is it only rapid acting insulins that we give to patients on the sliding scale?
Thanks doctor.
Yes! Long-acting insulin takes too long to bring the blood glucose down. I'd also make sure your patient gets lots of water to get the insulin into the bloodstream and to get the blood sugar out of the bloodstream and through the kidneys and excreted from the body as rapidly as possible. The doctor at one point calls this insulin "regular" insulin. "Regular insulin" or "Toronto" is an older insuiin and it takes longer to work than rapid acting does. Humolog, Novo rapide, Apidra and Fiasp are the fast-acting insulins. I use Fiasp now because it is in and out of the body in 3 hours. @Chantal Murray You're a great nursing student. You ask lots of questions. By the way, nurses also don't want their patients to have a bad low so they tend to skimp on the insulin injected, but if you follow the charts the hospital provides, you can't go wrong, I guess.
I got handed 100 units for my kid and expected to use this for the sliding scale. I don't think I have the correct needle!!! I just came from the hospital for my kid. Can you let me know if I am correct that I wasn't given the right needle for the slide scale??? 100 units DO NOT HAVE ONE DIDGET NUMBERS!!!
Does not apply to T1d.
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I just got on insulin my doctor prescribed me 20 units a day.
Does not apply to T1d. .