Diabetic Ketoacidosis, Pathogenesis and Clinical Presentation (Part 2) | drbeen

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Eligible for 1.5 CME

Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is the second most common presentation of type 1 diabetes mellitus. (First most common being early onset diabetes mellitus.)
In this second part of the lecture we discuss:
Mechanism of the gastrointestinal (GIT) symptoms.
Bicarb levels in DKA.
A quick comparison of the metabolic disturbances in DKA and HHS.
The impact of acidosis and membrane potential predisposing cell to arrhythmias.
Metabolic picture of DKA.
Working up the labs' data for DKA patient.
Calculating osmolality.
Calculating expected PaCO2 levels using Winter's equation.

Instructor

Dr. Mobeen Syed

Dr. Mobeen Syed

Mobeen Syed M.D, MS Graduated from King Edward Medical University. Entrepreneur, Medical Educator, CEO and founder of Drbeen corp.