title: Insulin pump therapy for pregnancy: a primer.
abstract: Current knowledge and advances in insulin formulations, insulin pump technology, and blood glucose monitoring techniques have improved practitioners' ability to achieve diabetic people's blood glucose targets. Practitioners and pregnant women should bear in mind that important differences exist in glucose metabolism during pregnancy and require a different approach from non-pregnant people to avoid pregnant women's experience being adversely affected. Insulin pump therapy, if used skillfully by practitioners and their pregnant patients, can be especially beneficial for some diabetic women during their pregnancies. Women's healthcare practitioners should endeavor to be familiar with this therapy, even if they are not experts in its full complexity.
authors.affiliation: Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY 10030, USA. jwbmfm@yahoo.com
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bernasko
mesh_terms: D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy; D054796:Drug Dosage Calculations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage; D007260:Infusion Pumps; D007328:Insulin / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000097:blood; D007332:Insulin Infusion Systems; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents; D007328:Insulin