Diabetes and COVID-19

This global public health crisis has clearly shown the impracticality of some of our strategies for diabetes care in the hospital. We think approaches that are not only patient-centered, but also centered around the community are important. We obtained support from NIH (through an internal P30 grant) to work on initiatives that can help us care for our patients and learn more about the disease. We are developing a web page with algorithms that we hope can help individualize inpatient diabetes management during the current COVID-19 Pandemic. Link here:www.covidindiabetes.org

 We are creating sections for

• non-critically ill patients (individualized regimens)
• critically ill (suggestions on IV protocols and transition to SC insulin)
• hyperglycemic crises (DKA protocols with SC insulin for mild/mod DKA)
• CGM implementation (2 factory-calibrated devices available).
• References ( public health information, other resources)    

We would like to keep this web/app open for discussion for continuous update. We have started at Emory and are expanding to other centers (US and outside) to hear about feedback (usability and content). We have additional content coming up so please stay tuned. 

We would like to hear your suggestions/experiences below so we can improve this open-access page. This is a rapidly evolving field and we would like to keep this content updated with hopefully useful information for providers around the world taking care of hospitalized patients with diabetes and COVID-19. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

Sincerely,

Francisco 

This global public health crisis has clearly shown the impracticality of some of our strategies for diabetes care in the hospital. We think approaches that are not only patient-centered, but also centered around the community are important. We obtained support from NIH (through an internal P30 grant) to work on initiatives that can help us care for our patients and learn more about the disease. We are developing a web page with algorithms that we hope can help individualize inpatient diabetes management during the current COVID-19 Pandemic. Link here:www.covidindiabetes.org

 We are creating sections for

• non-critically ill patients (individualized regimens)
• critically ill (suggestions on IV protocols and transition to SC insulin)
• hyperglycemic crises (DKA protocols with SC insulin for mild/mod DKA)
• CGM implementation (2 factory-calibrated devices available).
• References ( public health information, other resources)    

We would like to keep this web/app open for discussion for continuous update. We have started at Emory and are expanding to other centers (US and outside) to hear about feedback (usability and content). We have additional content coming up so please stay tuned. 

We would like to hear your suggestions/experiences below so we can improve this open-access page. This is a rapidly evolving field and we would like to keep this content updated with hopefully useful information for providers around the world taking care of hospitalized patients with diabetes and COVID-19. 

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond.

Sincerely,

Francisco