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<blockquote data-quote="donnellysdogs" data-source="post: 1476064" data-attributes="member: 17713"><p>Some hospitals do not take you in until a couple hours before surgery! I was due to go for op at 2.30 but admittance not till 12.00. It was changed to 9am. </p><p></p><p>They want to cover all angles of safety during an op. Although the likelihood is minimal... things can go wrong... ie for me they may have needed this electrical saw thing... so I had to remove sensor and they cannot guarantee everybodies ops 100% so just in case the anaethetists generally prefer sliding scale. (What you are calling a pump).</p><p>They wouldnt want to be fafging around in theatre trying to get glucose/insulin in your vein when the drip could already be in place.</p><p></p><p>They have basic guidelines to follow for when the drips are actually in use/not in use... they do not regularly test as I wanted to.. so I was doing my own tests when I wanted.</p><p></p><p>In view of my two mess ups as described above... would I want a 3rd sliding scale at my next operation?? Yes...</p><p></p><p>Yes, because I know that things can go wrong. Bleeds can occur, all sorts of things.. I want to know that if anything chronic happened in surgery that they would have control of my diabetes.. at least! My levels when I got to surgery were 4.4 and 7.0 after.. they did look after me in surgery and recovery.. </p><p></p><p>My incidents are not the norm... </p><p></p><p>You will be advised what insulin to take on the morning of admittance and they normally hand control back to you as soon as you are back in the ward.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donnellysdogs, post: 1476064, member: 17713"] Some hospitals do not take you in until a couple hours before surgery! I was due to go for op at 2.30 but admittance not till 12.00. It was changed to 9am. They want to cover all angles of safety during an op. Although the likelihood is minimal... things can go wrong... ie for me they may have needed this electrical saw thing... so I had to remove sensor and they cannot guarantee everybodies ops 100% so just in case the anaethetists generally prefer sliding scale. (What you are calling a pump). They wouldnt want to be fafging around in theatre trying to get glucose/insulin in your vein when the drip could already be in place. They have basic guidelines to follow for when the drips are actually in use/not in use... they do not regularly test as I wanted to.. so I was doing my own tests when I wanted. In view of my two mess ups as described above... would I want a 3rd sliding scale at my next operation?? Yes... Yes, because I know that things can go wrong. Bleeds can occur, all sorts of things.. I want to know that if anything chronic happened in surgery that they would have control of my diabetes.. at least! My levels when I got to surgery were 4.4 and 7.0 after.. they did look after me in surgery and recovery.. My incidents are not the norm... You will be advised what insulin to take on the morning of admittance and they normally hand control back to you as soon as you are back in the ward. [/QUOTE]
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