1. If your patient is tall â say, 6â0â³ or over â thereâs every chance in the world that heâs feeling cramped in his hospital bed. Itâs a little-known fact that most hospital beds can be lengthened. Choose a moment when the nurses arenât at their busiest, and ask to have the bed extended.ome hospitals donât allow them, but even if theyâre allowed, your patient may find himself unusually sensitive to scent (sadly, my hospital stay happened when Stargazer lilies â to me, a migraine with a stem â were in season).
It's principle responsibility is to create digestive enzymes and hormones, one of which is insulin. This article will describe how insulin is created in the pancreas and the other hormones that help to modify the blood sugar levels of the body. The pancreas is made up of exocrine and endocrine cells. Exocrine cells create the digestive enzymes that are passed into the stomach to help break down food. Endocrine cells are responsible for creating and secreting insulin and it's counterpart glucagon.
The insulin also helps to store any excess glucose in the liver and in the fatty (adipose) tissues of the body. Pancreatic disease (chronic pancreatitis) or damage to the pancreas, in particular to the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, can cause diabetes.This means that the pancreas makes less insulin, resulting in higher than normal blood glucose levels.t also produces digestive juices and enzymes to break down food. Image: Shutterstock.com. The pancreas helps to control blood glucose levels by producing insulin when the amount of glucose (a type of sugar) in the blood increases â for instance after a meal.