General BroadCAST31 Okt 2025

Diabetic Ketoacidosis

With over 400,000 type 1 diabetics living with the disease in the UK, the likelyhood paramedics and emergency responders will encounter a patient in crisis is quite high.

Diabetic ketoacidosis is undoubtably a problem that you will have encountered in your practice and effective prehospital recognition and management is key to starting a potentially life saving pathway of care. This month we’re taking a look at DKA, we look at the pathology of the disease, what common triggers are that can send a patient into DKA and how we can recognise and treat a patient who is suffering with it. So if you dont know why we need to tailor our fluid rehydration carefully in this patinet group, you’re not sure how to tailor your history to look for precipitating causes or you just want to know more about how these patients are managed in ED and ITU then this is the episode for you.

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