Endocrine Abstracts

42 insulin related incidents were reported within our Trust in 2014. Subsequent Root Cause Analysis revealed numerous insulin errors, hyperglycemia mismanagement and highlighted significant deficits in diabetes knowledge amongst nursing staff. To address the above issues, new safety interventions were introduced and five key outcomes are:1. A new stand-alone insulin prescription chart introduced May’15 has seen insulin incidents dec...

Introduction: Treatment of β thalassemia major results in excessive iron deposition in most tissues including the endocrine glands.Aim: To find out the prevalence of endocrine complications in our thalassemia-endocrine clinic as set out by the UK thalassemia society guidelines.Methods: Clinic notes and electronic results of all patients attending Birmingham City Hospital for the 2-monthly thalassemia-endocrine MDT clinic (2010...

Introduction: Our institution leads a UK, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (REVISE-Diabesity ISRCTN00151053) investigating the interaction of Endobarrier therapy, a 60 cm endoscopically implanted proximal intestinal liner, with glucagon-like peptide-1 drug therapy.Aims: To evaluate whether acquired experience could translate into establishment of an effective and safe NHS Endobarrier service in patients with diabesity.Metho...