Book description
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.
David Levy, Consultant Physician, Gillian Hanson
Centre, Whipps Cross University Hospital; Honorary Senior Lecturer,
Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
