Hornik ES, Altman-Merino AE, Koefoed AW, Meyer KM, Stone IB, Green JA, Williams GH, Adler GK, Williams JS. Interplay Between Statins, Cav1 (Caveolin-1), and Aldosterone. Haas AV, Baudrand R, Easly RM, Murray GR, Touyz RM, Pojoga LH, Jeunemaitre X, Hopkins PN, Rosner B, Williams JS, Williams GH, Adler GK. Striatin genotype-based, mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist-driven clinical trial: study rationale and design. Your family doctor can help by developing a Enhanced Care Plan to help track your progress.Stone IB, Green JAEM, Koefoed AW, Hornik ES, Williams JS, Adler GK, Williams GH. We work closely with your family doctor (General Practitioner) who will continue to provide your routine health cares such as immunisations, scripts for medications including insulin, and review of routine pathology tests that were ordered at the hospital. Parenting advice and therapeutic support is also offered to children and young people and their families after discharge as needed. Your social worker will provide emotional and practical support in hospital around your child and family's adjustment to diagnosis and the hospital environment. For children with coeliac disease or requiring a special diet they will help you with these. Management of exercise, parties and eating out is also discussed and a healthy lifestyle is encouraged.
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Your dietitian will assess your nutrient intake and will teach you how to match your insulin dose to your food intake. For children with endocrine conditions they will instruct you on how to give your injected and oral medications. Your diabetes educator (Clinical Nurse Consultant) will teach you how to measure blood glucose levels, give insulin, manage high or low blood glucose levels, and generally adapt the diabetes treatment to your life. Our medical team also includes a Paediatric Registrar & Resident Doctor who assist the endocrinologists. They will review your progress every three months in the clinic. A doctor will see you most days during your hospital stay to adjust your insulin doses and other medications and manage your medical treatment. Your doctor (Endocrinologist) is a specialist in caring for diabetes and endocrine conditions in children and teenagers. The nurse educators also do school visits to facilitate the safe integration of children with diabetes into their schools. An HbA1C is performed at each visit with the result immediately available.Įducation programs and seminars, and support groups are run by our team. We have particular expertise in managing young children using insulin pumps and have pioneered the ezy-BICC injection management system which provides for greater flexibility in meal size while using multiple daily injections.Īs part of our inpatient and outpatient services we offer an education program for newly diagnosed diabetic children and their parents. Inpatient services include treatment of ketoacidosis, stabilisation of new onset and poorly controlled diabetics, management of diabetes during admission to John Hunter Children's Hospital for reasons other than diabetes and initiation of insulin pump therapy. The paediatric endocrine service offers assessment and management of disorders of growth and puberty, adrenal disorders, sexual ambiguity, pituitary dysfunction, thyroid dysfunction, hypoglycaemia, abnormalities of fluid and electrolyte balance, disorders of calcium and bone metabolism and diabetes.
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