Editor’s Note: Patient Injection Mistakes, Incretin Slides – Part 2 and Long-Term Complications

This week I gave a lecture to the physician and pharmacist residents at one of our local hospitals and we were talking about the possible reasons that insulin would suddenly lose its effect on a patient. The pharmacist residents started talking about storage temperature, time the bottle had been open, pharmacokinetics, adsorption and needle length. The physician residents brought up development of antibodies, organ failure, and treatment of co-morbidities increasing glucose levels. But when I showed them this week’s Diabetes Disaster Averted they quickly found out that sometimes the reason something happens is not so complicated.

Thanks for all the great feedback on our Homerun Slides we have decided to continue to give you more information about the GLP-1 Agonists and this week we will focus on the different mechanisms and effects of GLP-1 Agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors.

We are also starting a new chapter in Drs. Edelman and Henry’s book on the long-term complications of diabetes and how to treat them.