Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook: A Guide for Primary Care Providers

by Richard S. Beaser, The Staff of Joslin Diabetes Center

Joslin Diabetes Center is pleased to introduce the Third Edition of Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook - A Guide for Primary Care Providers. Primary care practitioners, nurse practitioners, RNs, RDs and other healthcare professionals are increasingly called upon to treat, work with or advise the growing numbers of people with diabetes. Recognizing that these primary care professionals are on the frontline of diabetes treatment, Joslin has produced Joslin's Diabetes Deskbook to offer its expertise and guidance in this effort. This Third Edition is completely revised to provide evidence-based information about diabetes and its complications along with the most up-to-date approaches to the diagnosis, management and treatment of the disease

Every chapter of the Deskbook has been updated for the Third Edition - including:

Medication Summaries

Diagnostic criteria and screening at-risk patients

Collaboration strategies and conversation starters to engage patients for improved outcomes

Topics of value to primary care providers included in the Deskbook are: diagnosis; oral medications and their use singly or in combination; designing insulin treatment programs; the role of medical nutritional therapy and exercise; risk reduction and treatment of microvascular and macrovascular complications; dealing with gender-specific issues; and educating diabetes patients so they can effectively engage in diabetes self- management.

Other unique features include:

Guides for specific insulin regimens

Guidelines for insulin adjustment

Insulin adjustment guidelines for exercise

Checklist for initiation, design and revision of a diabetes self-monitoring program

Patient nutrition assessment

Checklist for diabetes medical history/physical exam/laboratory assessment

Checklist for the evaluation of a woman with diabetes who wishes to become pregnant

Intensive insulin therapy algorithm

883 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Silvano Paternoster · Rating 5 out of 5]

A nifty and comprehensive book essential for any MD or researcher in diabetes

[Johnny Kavanagh · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very good read I must say, went out with a girl years ago who had Borderline Diabetes and was using Pig insulin at the time as it was the only type of insulin available, now we have Human Insulin but also Medicine has come on in leaps and bounds, unfortunately that girl I used to date is no longer here , she died at the age of 31.This disease is a barbaric Killer,slowly spreads all over into the eyes to an extreme the Retinopathy can no longer fight it, very hard to control Blood Sugars and always in danger once Diagnosed with type 2 = borderline which is insulin dependent.I learned everything about the disease in about 5 years knowing this girl, from keytones, hypoglycemia to hyperglycemia, the different reactions are scary, you can have too much sugar or not enough,if treating the patient for one reaction or the other it's CRUCIAL to know which reaction they are suffering from, the reaction cure can be a glass of orange juice to a candy bar or A shot of quick acting insulin to control matters.