Therapy of severe diabetic ketoacidosis: Zero-mortality under very-low- dose insulin application

Diabetes Care

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 674-677

  Wagner, Arnd ^a   Risse, Alexander ^a   Brill, Hans Ludwig ^a   Wienhausen Wilke, Vera ^a   Rottmann, Markus ^a   Sondern, Klemens ^a   Angelkort, Bernhard ^a  

^a Medizinische Klinik Nord Münsterstrasse 240   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEPARIN; INSULIN; POTASSIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; CHILD; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032955738     PISSN: 01495992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2337/diacare.22.5.674     Document Type: Article

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