A practitioner order is for a continuous infusion of insulin by using insulin pump therapy.
What is insulin?
Insulin is a type of hormone that is secreted by the islets of langerhans in the pancreas. it is used mainly for the metabolism of glucose in the body.
A continuous infusion of insulin can be prescribed by a practitioner to a patient suffering from type 1 diabetes.
The insulin pump therapy is used for this purpose because it mimics a physiological way of delivering the insulin into the body.
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