{"id":3534,"date":"2004-04-07T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T08:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2004-04-07T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T08:12:33","slug":"in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think you have to register (but it&#8217;s free, and I don&#8217;t think you have to be a doctor, but not sure)  anyway, I quote the part that worries me.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Reclassifying Insulins\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/470739?rss\">Reclassifying Insulins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Insulins have hitherto been distinguished as clear (short-acting) and cloudy (long-acting). However the introduction of glargine, which is a clear long-acting insulin, has prompted the need for reclassification. In view of the increasing emphasis on intensive insulin therapy using basal-bolus regimens, a new, simple, pragmatic classification is suggested in which insulins are categorised according to the timing and purpose of administration: basal (maintenance), bolus (meal) and biphasic (mixed).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a member of the internet insulin pump users list, and periodically we get an email from a member who has been given the wrong insulin by a pharmacist &#8212; they always catch it because the insulin is cloudy instead of clear.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, pharmacists are human and make mistakes.  I always double check my boxes when they come in.  <\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER, how are we going to catch this mistake?  Hopefully they won&#8217;t make the mistake &#8212; BUT THEY DO!<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t this insulin be cloudy?  Or another color?  Someway the poor unsuspecting diabetic has to make sure someone isn&#8217;t accidently given him the wrong meds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think you have to register (but it&#8217;s free, and I don&#8217;t think you have to be a doctor, but not sure) anyway, I quote the part that worries me. Reclassifying Insulins Insulins have hitherto been distinguished as clear (short-acting) and cloudy (long-acting). However the introduction of glargine, which is a clear long-acting insulin, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exercise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}