Emergency Medicine – PICO #2

Brief description of patient problem/setting (summarize the case very briefly) As you come into the emergency room for your shift, the other PA gives you the sign off on a patient that came in with diabetic ketoacidosis. You notice the bag of intravenous insulin that is helping offset the DKA, and you wonder if insulin given subcutaneously would also help the patient without possibly having them become hypoglycemic. Search Question: Clearly state the question (including outcomes or criteria to be tracked) In patients with diabetic ketoacidosis, how does subcutaneous insulin versus intravenous insulin affect the time to DKA resolution and …

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