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.

Yes, there’s a sliding scale that can be used to determine your NovoLog dosage. A sliding scale is a chart that tells you or your doctor how much insulin you’ll need. It’s based on your ...

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 ...

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 ...

This past month I have seen four adults with type 2 diabetes who have gained 40 lb or more in weight during a 12-month period and they all blamed it on their insulin therapy. Whether insulin ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Yet sliding sale insulin in hospital settings persists, largely because it’s easier to manage. Sliding scale insulin sets the dose strictly off a blood glucose level, without taking a number of ...

Basal insulin, with or without nutritional correction, is the best approach to manage blood glucose in noncritically ill surgical patients.

These ranges cannot be achieved with traditional sliding scale (SS) insulin treatment. [ 9 ] Many clinical outcome studies have been done in critically ill patients to evaluate the effectiveness ...