Sliding scale insulin (SSI), once a prominent diabetes treatment, entails checking your blood sugar levels before meals. Your pre-meal blood sugar then determines your insulin dosage.

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 ...

Despite being discouraged in the elderly, a facilities study has found that sliding scale insulin therapy is used in 21% of newly admitted residents who receive the drug for type 2 diabetes and is ...

A standardized sliding scale insulin (SSI) order sheet can reduce the incidence of SSI-related medication errors, according to a study published online December 7 in the Journal of Evaluation in ...

The infusion should be stopped, and the patient should be maintained on sliding scale insulin. The patient is receiving a disproportionate amount of basal insulin with his outpatient pump regimen.

Dr. Lily Ackermann discussed inpatient diabetes care, focusing on real-world decisions and personalized treatment using ...

We understand that in the absence of a software platform to guide insulin titration, basal bolus is more difficult to implement and sustain than sliding scale; and many clinicians who don’t ...

While you should always talk with a doctor about your insulin needs, ... Colunga-Lozano LE, et al. (2018). Sliding scale insulin for non-critically ill hospitalised adults with diabetes ...

(HealthDay)—A standardized sliding scale insulin (SSI) order sheet can reduce the incidence of SSI-related medication errors, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in the Journal of ...

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 ...