The Importance of Level 3 Nursing Intervention in Critical Care

DKA is a potentially life threatening presentation which can occur in type 1 and in type 2 diabetics. We're defined as a triad of hyperglycemia ketosis, a metabolic acidosis and we also need to be aware of that little gotcha of the euglycemic keto acidosiswhich can catch all of us out. And finally if we're getting a patient who's collapsed in DKA then we need to be extremely careful and aware they've got profound metabolic acidosis, they're hypovolemic and the risk of complications is very high. So thank you for supporting Persustation Emergency Medicine and we will be covered here on SJTreme this week