Hospitalized patients using continuous glucose monitoring devices and insulin dosing apps

Speakers: Pratik Choudhary, Lori Berard

Speaker bios | Disclosures

Diabetologist Pratik Choudhary and Nurse Consultant Lori Berard discuss considerations around the use of diabetes self-management technologies within the hospital setting. This video focuses on inpatient use of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) devices and dosing apps (8:14).

Learning points

• The basics on how CGM devices work.
• Self-management benefits that CGM devices and dosing apps can convey to the individual with diabetes.
• How embracing the patient’s autonomy and device oriented self-care routines may benefit the treating clinician.
• How and why interstitial glucose measurements can vary from capillary glucose measurements.
• Approaches to integrating capillary glucose measurements into the care of patients using a CGM device.

More videos in this series

• Hospitalized patients that use continuous glucose monitoring devices and insulin dosing apps.
• Hospitalized patients using insulin pumps.
• Emergency admissions for patients using diabetes devices.
• Hospital admissions for surgery or radiology in patients using diabetes devices.
• Diabetes device use in women admitted to the maternity ward.