This new and completely revised third edition is a concise, systematic and highly practical guide to the care of patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Clinically and problem-based, it covers emergency, inpatient and ambulatory diabetes care in the hospital and community, focusing particularly on difficult, grey and contentious areas of management, and seeks to guide advanced practitioners through problems that are not always emphasised.
Up to date clinical trial results have been incorporated, as well as concise discussions of lifestyle approaches to diabetes management, and it includes a new chapter on psychological problems in diabetes. It is now fully referenced with PubMed PMID numbers and all HbA1c measurements are quoted in DCCT and IFCC units.
It will be valuable for foundation year and specialist trainees in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology; community and hospital diabetes specialist nurses and nurse practitioners; hospital-based ward staff in specialist and non-diabetes-specialist departments, especially cardiology and emergency medicine; and general practice diabetes leads and general practitioners with a specialist diabetes interest. It will be equally valuable for hands-on reference use in the clinical situation, and for clinicians in hospital medicine and general practice studying for postgraduate diplomas and examinations.
Preface
Numbers, conversions and tables
Chapter 1: Classification and diagnosis
Chapter 2: Diabetes in the emergency department
Chapter 3: Management of in-patient diabetes
Chapter 4: Type 1 diabetes: insulin treatment
Chapter 5: Type 2 diabetes: general introduction
Chapter 6: Type 2 diabetes: pharmacological treatment of hyperglycaemia
Chapter 7: Infections in diabetes
Chapter 8: Diabetic renal disease
Chapter 9: Diabetes and the eye
Chapter 10: Diabetic neuropathy
Chapter 11: Hypertension
Chapter 12: Lipids
Chapter 13: Psychological aspects of diabetes
David Levy, Consultant Physician, Gillian Hanson Centre, Whipps Cross University Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
