Education/Prevention
70 to 100 mg/dL
What is the normal blood glucose range at Lahey?
Type of diabetes that genetic and environmental factors trigger
What is Type I diabetes?
If someone presents with diaphoresis, shakiness, mood changes and confusion and hypoglycemia.
What are symptoms of hypoglycemia?
Humalog
What is a rapid acting insulin?
The organ involved with Diabetes
What is the pancreas?
Prevent complications e.g. prevention of neuropathy, nephropathy, & retinopathy
What are secondary prevention goals for patients with diabetes?
Magic age that makes an individual at risk for type 2 diabetes
What happens at age 40?
Diabetes complication that causes high glucose levels without the presence of ketones
What is hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS)?
First PO medication prescribed for type 2 diabetes
What is metformin?
A hormone produced in the pancreas by the islets of Langerhans
What is insulin?
Three common cardiovascular health problems that diabetics are at increased risk for.
What are stroke, heart attack and high blood pressure?
Increase risk for cardiac event or heart failure.
What is the result of poor glycemic control?
Lifestyle change that discourages the development of diabetic neuropathy
What is smoking cessation?
Insulin therapy provides continuous low-level secretion between meals and through the night
What is Basal insulin (e.g. Lantus)?
Name of the best diagnostic test for monitoring long-term glucose control
What is Hemoglobin A1C?
Stop Light handout & "Your Guide to Diabetes, A Nurses Teaching Guide" & insulin pen teaching kit.
What are Lahey tools for teaching your diabetes patient?
Weight; physical activityl; alcohol intake; and smoking cessation.
What are modifiable risk factors?
Condition with severe hyperglycemia, dehydration but no ketoacidosis.
What is Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Syndrome (HHS)?
Glucose tabs, Dextrose gel, Dextrose IV and Glucagon IM
What are Medication choices in the LHMC IP Hypoglycemia Protocol?
Form of high blood sugar affecting pregnant women
What is gestational diabetes?
Signs and symptoms of hypoglycemia; how to use an insulin pen; insulin dosing around meals; and how to use a glucometer.
What to teach your diabetic patient?
Three risk factors for Type II diabetes
What are (pick three): having prediabetes, being overweight, being 45 pr older, having a parent or sibling with type 2 diabetes, being physically active less than three times a week, have a history of gestational diabetes
A life threatening complication of diabetes where patient becomes acidotic.
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA)?
Good glycemic control and antihypertensive therapy [angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE-I) or angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARB)]Treatment
What is a treatment to prevent diabetic nephropathy?
Latin for "sweet as honey"
What does Mellitus mean?