CME: Diabetes (136254): self-assessment questionnaire

What is the most appropriate next step in her diabetes management? (a) Check her capillary blood ketones. (b) Start a variable rate insulin infusion (VRII) and continue her Lantus. (c) Start intravenous fluids. (d) This woman is competent at self-managing her diabetes, allow her to calculate and administer a correction dose to bring her blood glucose back to target range. (e) Using the formula: 1 unit of NovoRapid to lower CBGs by 3 mmol/L, prescribe 3 units of NovoRapid to bring her blood glucose back to target range. 9. What would be the next course of action? (a) Admit to hospital for monitoring. (b) Continue current medications. (c) Maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) genetic testing. (d) Start insulin. (e) Stop gliclazide. 10. A 25-year-old White lady had her CBG check during a health check-up at her workplace because she had a strong family history of diabetes.