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Welcome to Helix Talk episode 86. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr.

Patel. In today's episode, we're going to talk everything you need to know about insulin in one shot.

So we'll start off basically talking about the kinds of insulin that are out there on the market.

And then later on we'll talk about some dosing and some clinical pearls and kind of major counseling points for a variety of different kinds of insulin.

We'll throw in some aspects of insulin administration techniques, storage requirements,

and then I hear from students all the time.

They still cannot get their head around the sliding scale.

So we'll talk a little bit about sliding scale insulin, especially you being here, Dr. Kane,

what are you seeing from the hospital inpatient side?

So Dr. Vettel, where should we start with the insolins here?

Let's divide up the insolins based on their duration of action or when we inject them, right?

So the two major categories are your basal insolins that are your almost one day insulin that

lasts for 24 hours or give you that overall control of but sugar throughout the day.

And then we have bolus insolins that are usually there to cover hyperglycemia that emerges

from meals.

So talking about basal insolins, the first and foremost is

the intermediate acting insulin. And that's your NPH. So the beta remember N is, you know,

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