منابع مشابه
Insulin pens: the modern delivery devices.
Strict glycemic control helps in reducing complications and mortality in patients with diabetes. Insulin remains the mainstay in treatment of diabetes. One of the most important barriers to insulin therapy is the use of conventional insulin delivery system, which remains time-consuming, cumbersome, inconvenient and painful. Insulin dosing via syringe is associated with a high risk of dosage err...
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BACKGROUND Modern insulin injection pens provide a convenient and accurate way for diabetes patients to inject insulin. They have widespread use among children and adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the U.S. and Europe. This study compared the dosing accuracy of four commonly available insulin pens (OptiClik and SoloSTAR from sanofi-aventis, FlexPen from Novo Nordisk, and HumaPen LUXURA ...
متن کاملDose accuracy and injection force of different insulin glargine pens.
BACKGROUND Dose accuracy and injection force, representing key parameters of insulin pens, were determined for three pens delivering insulin glargine-based copies, Pen Royale (WR) and DispoPen (WD) for Glaritus® (Wockhardt) and GanLee Pen (GL) for Basalin® (Gan & Lee), compared with pens of the originator, ClikSTAR® (CS) and SoloSTAR® (SS) for Lantus® (Sanofi). METHODS Using the weighing proc...
متن کاملAvoiding problems with insulin pens in the hospital.
travel through the patient’s skin and into the nurse’s finger, which is holding the pinched skin. Along with misalignment of the angle of injection, it may be difficult to visualize the injection site during pen delivery of insulin. Poor visualization has been reported as a contributing factor with this type of needlestick injury. Some insulin pen needles are not available with a needle guard; ...
متن کاملSharing Insulin Pens: Are You Putting Patients at Risk?
E ase of administration, accuracy, and convenience are among the hallmark characteristics of insulin pens. These devices, which have gained popularity over the past 10 years, are designed to be used multiple times for a single person, using a new needle for each injection. Unfortunately, reports of themisuse of insulin pens also have been growing. Backflow of blood and other biologic material i...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1932-2968,1932-2968
DOI: 10.1177/1932296818759845