Diabetic ketoacidosis: Risk factors and management strategies

Treatments in Endocrinology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-108

  Umpierrez, Guillermo E ^a   Kitabchi, Abbas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; CATECHOLAMINE; ELECTROLYTE; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN; ISOTONIC SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANAMNESIS; BRAIN EDEMA; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FATIGUE; FLUID THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GLUCAGON RELEASE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HORMONAL REGULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE RELEASE; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFECTION; INJURY; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INSULIN TREATMENT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; SURGICAL STRESS; TACHYCARDIA; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACIDOSIS; BICARBONATES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; INSULIN; KETONES; PHOSPHATES; POTASSIUM; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0042859988     PISSN: 11756349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00024677-200302020-00003     Document Type: Review

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