Browse Guides  internal medicine  endocrine and metabolic disorders

Diabetic ketoacidosis

Prevalence
Causes
Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis
Causes

Common causes of diabetic ketoacidosis include b  c  
  • infection
  • treatment error
  • new-onset diabetes
  • other medical illness

but epsiodes are often of unknown aetiology.  


Expiry date: May 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author   C   Ball
Reviewer   N   Chi
CAT Writers   CM   Ball , C   Wotton