Diabetic ketoacidosis in adult patients: an audit of factors influencing time to normalisation of metabolic parameters.
Melissa H LeeGenevieve L CalderJohn D SantamariaRichard J MacIsaacPublished in: Internal medicine journal (2018)
Lower admission pH levels and higher admission serum potassium levels are independent predictors of slower time to resolution of DKA. This may assist to stratify patients with DKA using markers of severity to determine who may benefit from closer monitoring and to predict LOS.
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