6th Diabetes Videoconference on 24 June 2015
On June 24, 2015, the 6th videoconference on diabetes will take place on the site mapompeainsuline.fr the site. This year, this videoconference will focus on the subject “traveling with my insulin pump“(1)This site specializes in diabetic disease andgives advice to patients and their families, deals with different topics such as daily life in the face of the disease for example.
It is true that many diabetics are apprehensive about going on a trip, fearing many inconveniences related to their disease. This videoconference will aim to answer patients’ questions, as precisely as possible, in order to guide and reassure them, as the summer holidays approach.
To participate in this event, it isnecessary to fill out a form beforehandon the mapompeainsuline.fr website. In this form you will be asked to enter your questions to be submitted during this videoconference. Your questions must be as specific as possible, and must be of great interest to the sick.
It is true that many topics regularly worry people suffering from diabetes and wishing to travel in France or abroad, such as how to travel with an insulin pump, do you have to present a certificate, do you have to have a prescription in English? Or how to transport your equipment without damaging it for example.
Recall that an insulin pump is carried by an insulin-dependent diabetic person, who has a permanent need for insulin, his pancreas no longer secreting it at all. It is an artificial device for delivering variable flow insulin, because it is programmable. It provides subcutaneous infusion of rapid-acting insulin(3).
During the videoconference, it is Dr.CHARPENTIER Guillaumewho will answer, live, the questions asked. Dr. CHARPENTIER is the president of CERITD (Research Center for the Intensification of Diabetes Treatment) of which he is the creator(2).
He is also, since 01/07/2014, consultant in diabetology at the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilienin Corbeil in Essonne. He had been with the endocrinology and diabetology department in the same hospital since 1983. He has also contributed to numerous referenced publications dealing with complications and genetics of diabetes.
The videoconference will take placefrom 5pm. It is reminded all the same that this videoconference willnotbe a medical consultation. Advice will be given, the opinion of the specialist will be dispensed. It is true that the subject is vast, but to travel with an insulin pump, a good organization remains essential.
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