If your child needs help learning to calculate their insulin needs, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta has created a helpful worksheet just for this. For this chart, we’ll assume your premeal ...

In the sliding-scale method, the dose is based on your blood sugar level just before your meal. The higher your blood sugar, the more insulin you take. SSI therapy has been around since the 1930s.

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In many hospitals in developing countries, particularly in Pakistan, a "sliding scale" is used to calculate the dose of insulin for the management of diabetes. This sliding scale depends on the ...

(HealthDay)—A standardized sliding scale insulin (SSI) order sheet can reduce the incidence of SSI-related medication errors, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in the Journal of ...