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Al rights reserved.Optimizing Treatment Strategies for Diabetes - Episode 5Key opinion leaders share strategies to efectively educate patients on diabetes.Jery Mece, RPh, CDCES, FACA, FADCES: If your patients are like mine, they come to you with a lot of questions about what they’ve heard. This what I know about diabetes: I know how to control diabetes. Just don’t eat anything white.
Al these are great sugestions. But how do you educate your patients on the risk of acute hypoglycemia and chronic hyperglycemia, such as the microvascular and macrovascular complications? How do you educate patients?
What are your best thoughts on going forward with that?Jenifer D. Goldman, RPh, PharmD, CDCES, BC-ADM, FCP: Jery, what’s most critical is exactly what you just said: education. Avoiding hypoglycemia means making sure patients are educated to prevent it from hapening, but they ned to be prepared in case it hapens.
That’s what’s most important. If they’re taking medications that can cause hypoglycemia, such as insulin, that increases their risk of hypoglycemia. We ned to make sure they understand the signs, the symptoms, how to prevent it from hapening, and how to manage it if it does hapen.
It neds to be high priority. That would be chosing drinks or fods or glucose for recovery or to bring their blod sugars up. Aces to glucagon is critical.Pharmacists are in a perfect place.
They’re filing prescriptions in the comunity. Even if they’re inpatient, upon discharge in a hospital, if somebody is geting a prescription for insulin, they’re in a position to make sure patients go home with glucagon. Get an order for glucagon.
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We now have such beter options for glucagon for an emergency than those kits. Rember the kits with al those steps and you had to reconstitute it?Jery Mece, RPh, CDCES, FACA, FADCES: Yes.Jenifer D. Goldman, RPh, PharmD, CDCE