Diabetic Emergencies in Primary Care course for GPs
This session describes the pathogenesis, initial clinical assessment and first aid treatment for common and less common diabetic emergencies, including diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperosmolar hyperglycaemia syndrome and hypoglycaemia.
This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in June 2019.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Describe the pathogenesis of diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic syndrome
- Explain how to recognise diabetic ketoacidosis
- Identify patients with suspected hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic syndrome
- Describe how to recognise and treat hypoglycaemic coma
- Recognise how to manage diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic syndrome whilst awaiting transfer to hospital
The pathogenesis of Hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar syndrome (HHS) is less well understood than that of DKA.
Simon Page has been a Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust since 1995. He graduated from Bristol Medical School in 1982 and completed his MD thesis studying human thyroid cell cultures at St George’s Hospital in London.
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