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Sixcarbons was created to bring all clinical aspects to do with glucose metabolism under one umbrella. Glucose after all is a pretty important molecule, and problems can arise from all aspects - the way it is stored, mobilised, metabolised and converted to other substrate.
This is still a new site - woefully short on content at the moment but hopefully with time it can grow. Currently there are two useful calculators
The first calculates the delivery of glucose in mg/kg/min when you are managing patients who are getting nutrition in the form of enteral feed as well intravenously. Working out their requirement in these circumstances can be time consuming. This resource contains the quantitites of carbohydrate in different infant formulas (including the metabolic ones) to make calculating glucose requirement helpful
The second is for users of insulin pumps. It allows a pump to be set up for all ages, and then has a resource to personalise the basal rates before making changes for real on the pump.
Although a clinical tool, please bear in mind that this app has not been benchmarked or quality assured, and remains very much in development. Therefore if used clinically any results it produces should be checked and no responsibility is accepted for any errors the code generates