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 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 ...

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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.

A sliding scale is a chart that tells you or your doctor how much insulin you’ll need. It’s based on your current blood sugar level. A sliding scale can help determine if you need a high dose ...

This story has been updated to include a statement from Sanofi. Business Insider reached out to the three main insulin makers for comment: "Every health care system is unique. In Canada ...

Nurse A administered insulin without checking Patient A’s medication chart; administered an overdose of insulin to Patient A and failed to complete a CIRIS report. She also administered 19 units of ...