diabetic ketoacidosis

Learn the key historical and examination pearls to help pick up this sometimes elusive diagnosis, what the value of serum ketones are in the diagnosis of DKA, how to assess the severity of DKA to guide management, how to avoid the dreaded cerebral edema that all too often complicates DKA, how to best adjust fluids and insulin during treatment, which kids can go home, which kids can go to the floor and which kids need to be transferred to a Pediatric ICU.

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is something we that is always on our mind as an EM provider, but have you thought of hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS)? Learn more in this CORE EM post reviewing this topic.