OVERVIEW: What every practitioner needs to know Are you sure your patient has conjunctivitis? The typical patient presents with: Red (or pink) eye – Dilatation of the vessels within the conjunctiva, the normally transparent outer lining of the eye, causes the sclera to appear red. Exudate – A purulent discharge is very common; it is…
OVERVIEW: What every practitioner needs to know Are you sure your patient has keratitis? What should you expect to find? Keratitis, inflammation of the cornea, can be sight-threatening and must be recognized promptly. Key symptom: Eye pain. Each time the eyelid migrates across the inflamed cornea, the patient experiences pain. Continue Reading Other symptoms: Foreign…
Are You Sure the Patient Requires Continuous Glucose Monitoring? Continuous glucose monitoring has the potential to offer several benefits, enabling patients and their health care providers to: Identify large excursions of hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia that the patient may not be aware of. Recognize real-time trends in glucose levels that permit therapeutic intervention to minimize glucose…
Should we screen for prediabetes and undiagnosed type 2 diabetes Prediabetes (also referred to, more accurately, as impaired glucose tolerance [IGT] and/or impaired fasting glucose [IFG]) and type 2 diabetes (defined in Table I) represent a pathophysiological and clinical continuum. Table I. Tests Impaired fasting glucose Impaired glucose tolerance Diabetes Fasting plasma glucose 100–125 mg/dl…
