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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

PARIS, June 25 Sanofi-aventis (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY) announced today that results from the RAndomized Study of Basal Bolus Insulin Therapy in the Inpatient Management of Patients with Type ...

50% of your total daily insulin dosage divided over each meal, or based on a sliding scale if your doctor recommends it Frequency • NovoLog: up to 10 minutes before a meal, for as many meals as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...