Pediatric Emergency Medicine Reports – February 1, 2012
February 1, 2012
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Pediatric Diabetic Ketoacidosis
Children with diabetes, especially type 1, remain at risk for developing diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). This may seem confounding in a modern society with such advanced medical care, but the fact remains that children who are type 1 diabetics have an incidence of DKA of 8 per 100 patient years.