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How does your hospital approach the use of insulin pumps for admitted patients?

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Endocrinology · Brigham And Womens Hospital Endocrinology

Patients using insulin pumps are only on rapid-acting insulin, so that any interruption in the use of the pump requires them to switch to a combination of basal insulin and rapid-acting insulin. This is hard to do in a controlled outpatient setting (for example, technical failure of the pump), but v...

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