Insulin Drip Math
A math verifier for sample insulin-infusion protocols.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Example protocol
- Example "moderate intensity" protocol
- Current blood glucose
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Result: Suggested rate (example only): 2 units/hr (moderate-intensity sample protocol).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Example protocol (low or moderate intensity)
- Current blood glucose (mg/dL)
What this is
Sophie Well takes a protocol intensity (low, moderate, or high) and the current blood glucose, then shows the rate a representative protocol would suggest at that input plus the conventional adjustment direction. The numbers here are illustrative reference values drawn from published examples, not orders - they exist so a learner can sanity-check whether a real protocol's table is doing what its prose says it does.
When to use it
Use this in the classroom, during protocol review, or as a back-of-the-envelope cross-check when you are reading an unfamiliar institutional protocol. Do not use this output to write live orders. Every hospital's insulin-infusion protocol is calibrated against its own monitoring cadence, its own hypoglycemia threshold, and its own dextrose-rescue procedure; mixing protocols mid-stream is the canonical recipe for an avoidable hypoglycemic event. For real DKA/HHS management, follow the institutional protocol your nursing staff is trained on, and let the bedside glucose recheck drive every titration.
How this is calculated
Example protocols only. Use your institution's active insulin protocol.
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.
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