Basal Bolus Regimen course for Nurses
This session provides the knowledge and skills required in initiating a basal bolus regimen in a well, newly diagnosed child with type I diabetes.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Describe the normal pattern of insulin secretion in the human body
- Explain the rationale of the basal bolus regimen
- State the timings and duration of actions for specific types of insulin
- Calculate insulin doses and dose distributions
- Calculate insulin adjustments
Basal bolus regimen is a type of insulin regimen used in intensive diabetes management.
Before commencing this session you should complete:
- Pathophysiology of Diabetes (172-10)
Charlotte (MbChB MRCPCH) is a general paediatric registrar working in the West Midlands with a special interest in diabetes.
- Anaesthesia | Paediatrics | Pharmacokinetic,Pharma...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2024-11-18
- Location:Online
- This session will provide an overview of pharmacokinetic (PK) maturation during infancy and the use of size models to describe PK differences between children and adults. It will go on to describe known pharmacodynamic (PD) differences and consider the im
- Anaesthesia | Paediatrics | Opioids In Paediatrics...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2024-11-18
- Location:Online
- This session looks at practical opioid pharmacology applied to the clinical use of different agents for neonates, infants and small children.
- Anaesthesia | Paediatrics | Advanced Paediatric Li...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2024-11-18
- Location:Online
- This session addresses the advanced management of the critically ill child and the child in cardiac arrest.
- Anaesthesia | Paediatrics | Head Injury
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2024-11-18
- Location:Online
- This session describes the principles of stabilisation and management of a child with a head injury and how this differs from the management of an adult patient. This includes methods of assessment, effects and management of raised intracranial pressure,
- Anaesthesia | Paediatrics | Multiply Injured Child...
- Posted By eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
- Posted Date: 2024-11-18
- Location:Online
- This session looks at the initial management and stabilization of the multiply injured child with reference to published trauma guidelines.