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A 29-year-old man with brittle diabetes (ie, frequent, severe changes in blood glucose levels) was admitted to surgery for incision and drainage of a leg infection. The patient had a history of chronic renal failure, hypertension, and stroke after a hypoglycemic event. While on the hospital floor before surgery, the patient's blood glucose level fell precipitously after he received insulin, and he required glucose several times. Because of the workload, the nurse did not accompany the patient to the OR but instead informed the transportation assistant about the patient's extreme sensitivity to insulin and asked that the i...
Source: AORN Journal - February 28, 2014 Category: Nursing Tags: Perioperative Grand Rounds Source Type: research
