The Huddle: Conversations with the Diabetes Care Team

Reimagining the Injection Experience

Episode Summary

How a person injects their medication is just as important as taking it. In this episode, we discuss practical ways to optimize the injection experience for people with diabetes while improving outcomes. Anu Rajora, a practicing pharmacist and director of marketing at HTL-Strefa, shares a person-centered approach for reimagining the injection experience and discusses how diabetes care and education specialists can help break the cycle of negative injection experiences. You'll also learn more about the thinnest and shortest injection pen needles available on the market today and how to request your own samples and complimentary educator kit.

Episode Notes

Resources

•  Learn more about the shortest and thinnest pen needle ever, and request an educator kit and samples at MyDroplet.com.
• Efficacy, safety and acceptability of the new pen needle 34G × 3.5 mm: a crossover randomized non-inferiority trial; AGO 02 study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007995.2018.1491396
• Penetration force and cannula sliding profiles of different pen needles: the PICASSO study: https://www.dovepress.com/penetration-force-and-cannula-sliding-profiles-of-different-pen-needle-peer-reviewed-article-MDER

Today’s episode and speaker was sponsored by Droplet, innovators of Micron 34G x 3.5mm pen needles. Visit MyDroplet.com to learn more.