Can APACHE II score predict diabetic ketoacidosis in hyperglycemic patients presenting to emergency department?

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1-4

  Safari, Saeid ^a   Rahmani, Farzad ^b   Soleimanpour, Hassan ^b   Ebrahimi Bakhtavar, Hanieh ^b   Esfanjani, Robab Mehdizadeh ^c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

APACHE II; Diabetic ketoacidosis; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907294025     PISSN: 22287523     EISSN: 22287531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/aapm.21365     Document Type: Article

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