Extensively revised and expanded Putting Your Patients on the Pump, 2nd edition gives diabetes professionals expert information and guidance to help their patients understand the advances in pump therapy and successfully manage their type 1 diabetes with and insulin pump.In a clear and concise style, the extensively revised 'Putting Your Patients on the Pump' offers physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, clinicians, and educators experience and practical guidance on how to help patients successfully manage their diabetes using an insulin pump. Ten chapters provide an in-depth description of insulin pump therapy advantages and disadvantages, pump and infusion set options and selection, pump candidate basics, getting the patient ready, pump start-up, pump therapy management, other considerations (e.g., dining out, alcohol, exerciseand physical activity, intimacy, managing sick days, stress, travel, weight change, menses and menopause, pregnancy, pediatrics, and older patients), resources, tips from pump experts, and insulin pumps of the future.Filled with checklists and step-by-step instructions, 'Putting Your Patients on the Pump' is the ideal resource for health care professionals with expertise in diabetes care who wish to successfully start and maintain diabetes patients on insulin pump therapy.