Don't Stop Basal Insulins When Patients are NPO

May 2016

Handling diabetes meds when a patient is NPO can be tricky.

Patients may not be eating for bowel rest, surgery, or even religious reasons.

Keep in mind, religious fasts vary. For example, patients may fast from dawn to dusk for Ramadan...or from sundown to sundown on Yom Kippur.

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