insulin - human to analogue transfer

Last reviewed 11/2021

Insulin - human to analogue transfer guide

  • actrapid (R) - if conversion of actrapid to analogue then switch can be made to a very short acting analogue (e.g. insulin aspart or insulin lispro) with a 10% dose reduction as a precaution
  • mixtard 30 (R) - if conversion to an analogue then switch to an biphasic analogue insulin e.g. biphasic insulin aspart (NovoMix (R) 30) with a 10% dose reduction as a precaution
  • insulatard (R) - if conversion to an anlogue then swith to a long-acting analogue (e.g. insulin glargine or insulin detemir) with a 10% dose reduction as a precaution

Reference:

  1. Novo Nordisk (August 2005). Human to Analogue Transfer Guide.