June 26, 2021

Last week, I was working with one of my interns and we were calculating some Carb and Correction Factors for bolus dosing of insulin. After Brenda Oppong, PharmD Candidate, LECOM School of Pharmacy, had that down we started practicing mealtime insulin use based on glucose readings and carbs, and taking into effect onboard insulin. She was doing all this on her iPhone on the calculator app. I mentioned how lucky she was, because when I first starting calculating doses, I had to do it on an old wire light calculator with no floating decimal or memory.

When she submitted her article for the week, I was reminded that not only have we come a long way with calculators and phones, we have made great progress since insulin was first used about 100 years ago. Check out her Laterpay feature on Type 1 Diabetes and New Innovations.

 

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Dave Joffe

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