After Twitter has increased its character limit to 280, it seems the perfect time to find new and enriching functions for the popular social network.In this line and on the occasion of the World Diabetes Day , two doctors have promoted the first course on continuous glucose measurement through the microblogging network. Specifically, the Chief of Subaltern staff of the University and Politecnic La Fe Hospital, Dani Royo, together with Cintia Gonzalez, endocrinologist of the Hospital de la Santa Creu and Sant Pau in Barcelona.
Related As explained through the website of the Valencian hospital, this project has Aiming to increase knowledge about this technology among health professionals interested in diabetes and among patients or relatives with diabetes.This course, pioneer in our country, consists of ten training sessions on the use of this technology tool gica in the various clinical areas and how to apply them daily.Through the hashtag #cursomcg, all interested parties can access the contents easily and at any time.In addition, all the information will remain hosted on the website www.canaldiabetes.com for later review or consultation.
first course on diabetes via twitter
Specifically, the first edition of this training will take place next Wednesday, November 22 with Dani Royo as a speaker tweeter, who will address interstitial measurement and the different systems existing in the market.professional, the use of this training platform is a great advantage to disseminate content in a massive way and to reach more people affected by diabetes.Likewise, it considers that this social network offers the possibility of creating conversations on a topic with participants However, this case will serve to create content on continuous blood glucose measurement thanks to the participation of health professionals and patients at the same level.
For its part, Cintia Gonzalez has indicated through the statement that one of the most important aspects of this first course »is to generate content not only based on the presentations and experiences of the teaching staff but of everything provided by the students and students, which allows to combine evidence-based medicine with experience-based medicine ».
free and open training
However, the promoters of this initiative trust that thanks to Twitter they can reach a very important number of people with an interest in diabetes whether they are health professionals or diabetic people, family members or Caregivers.For this reason, they believe that they will be able to meet a need for specific and structured training for both professionals and people with diabetes in the use of glucose monitoring systems.
Other topics that will be addressed in the various sessions distributed over several days will be the possibilities of using the non-continuous system such as Flash , the guidelines for understanding the data, glucose curves obtained and its relationship with glycemic control, women in a state of pregnancy with diabetes, the dangers of being aware of a glucose figure, the use for parents of children with diabetes of these tools, among others.
The initiative has the support of the Department of Universal Health and Public Health, through its Diabetes 2.0 working group of the Diabetes Strategy and the scientific endorsement of the Catalan Diabetes Association.In addition, professionals from the Hospital Clinic, Hospital Sant Pau, Sant Joan de Deu de Barcelona, Hospital Virgen Victoria de Malaga and Fundacion MiDiabetes de Chile.
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