
S2 Ep22: DKA: Mind the Gap! Master the diagnosis and management of Diabetic Ketoacidosis!
The Cribsiders
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Is There a Time When You Need to Use Inslen to Normalize the Gap?
There may be a time when you're inslen that your glucose may actually normalize, or even go low. So we do sometimes add dexterous to the fluid. If it's dropping more than a hundred milligram per decileter, then your osmolarity in the blood is dropping a little too fast. And so you worry about, would that put you at risk of brain edema related to the beticita sedosis? That's why we may start it at higher than 300 of times.
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