Insulin in Clinical Practice

The discovery of insulin has been one of the greatest milestones in medicine. Any type of diabetes mellitus can be controlled by using insulin. With the availability of many types of insulins, managing diabetes is far easier now than before, and treatment can be tailored to the individual needs. Though using insulin is not easy: Its rational and effective use requires common sense, intelligence, and sound knowledge of different types of insulin, their time, action profiles and different insulin regimens. Everyone is familiar with insulin, but a few are real experts in using it. Literature is scattered in different sources when it comes to using insulin. The entire current literature about insulin and various insulin regimens has been referred to make the second edition up-to-date and more useful to clinicians. Sincere effort has been made to bring together all the information that the clinicians need to know to use insulin in their daily practice in a simple language. This book is useful for all the general practitioners, postgraduate students, residents, physicians, and all other doctors who are engaged in treating diabetes mellitus.