32 minutes

Get vital information about how drugs work for your patients with diabetes mellitus, DKA, HHNK syndrome, and other complications - during immediate and continuing treatment. Know exactly what their actions mean to your nursing care before, during, and after drug therapy.

With this DVD, you'll learn:

• how glucagon converts hepatic stores of glycogen into glucose
• how insulin attaches to receptors on cell membranes, allowing glucose to enter cells and provide energy for metabolism
• how a rapid drop in your hyperglycemic patient's blood glucose level can cause cerebral edema
• how sulfonylureas lower the blood glucose level by causing beta cells to produce more insulin
• how gemfibrozil increases the activity of lipoprotein lipase, which helps prevent atherosclerosis (a macrovascular diabetic complication) by removing triglycerides from chylomicrons and VLDLs in the blood
• why repaglinide must be administered 15 to 30 minutes before meals and much, much more