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Questions:
1. What is the difference between type 1 and type 2 diabetes?
2. What is "normal" fasting blood glucose levels (may differ slightly based on what resource you're looking at)?
3. Glucose is needed by each cell in the body to be able to perform metabolic functions. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) results in cells getting less nutrients and accordingly reduces metabolic functions. Knowing this information, what symptoms do you anticipate a hypoglycemic patient may have? How may the body compensate to try and restore homeostasis?
4. If a patient is hypoglycemic but is conscious (awake enough to respond appropriately), how many grams of carbohydrates should be given to them orally? What food or drinks would equate to this gram amount?
5. If a patient is hypoglycemic and is unconscious (not awake and unable to respond appropriately), what solution and how many grams can be given via IV to raise glucose levels?
6. If a patient is hypoglycemic and is unconscious (not awake and unable to respond appropriately), what medication and how many grams can be given subcutaneously or intramuscularly to raise glucose levels? Does this medication add sugar into the bloodstream or does it pull sugar from another part of the body?
7. What is insulin? Which organ produces it? What does it do?
8. What is insulin resistance? How does one develop insulin resistance?
9. Diabetic patients do not produce sufficient amounts of insulin which may result in hyperglycemia (high blood sugar). Although the sugar is in the body, the cells are unable to use them and consequently the sugar remains in the bloodstream. What would you anticipate of the viscosity (thickness) of blood during hyperglycemia? What other symptoms do you anticipate from a hyperglycemic patient?
10. If glucose levels continue to rise with insufficient insulin, a patient may develop diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA).
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