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Insulin Pumps and Diabetes Management Diabetes Nurse, Cecilia Hamming, RN, BA., Medtronic CPT, discusses the health benefits with insulin pumps. For more information on diabetes please contact your local family physician or endocrinologist.
Diabetes Nurse, Cecilia Hamming, RN, BA., Medtronic CPT, discusses the health benefits with insulin pumps. For more information on diabetes please contact your local family physician or endocrinologist.
Featuring Cecilia Hamming, RN, BA, Medtronic CPT
Duration: 58 seconds
The ability for insulin pumps to deliver doses as small as 0.025 units precisely at times that are programmed for each individual person enhances the ability to be safe.
We're no longer injecting huge amounts of insulin all at once. Some of the pumps now offer low-glucose suspend, which in tune - in collaboration with the sensors, allows the pump to shut off based on the patient's glucose level.
So if you are going low or you can't detect your lows it can actually shut off the infusion of insulin based on your immediate needs. This would limit the severity of your hypoglycemia, which would also lend to safety.
So if you have any questions regarding the safety of insulin pumps the best people to ask are your diabetes clinical care team.
Presenter: Ms. Cecilia Hamming, Nurse, Vancouver, BC
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