{"title":"Acute extreme hypocapnia and diabetic coma in an elderly patient after surgery: A case report.","authors":"Thomas Strecker, Michaela Siegle, Frank Bremer","doi":"10.1177/2050313X241282761","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis are serious and life-threatening emergencies in diabetes patients. Early recognition of the symptoms of these disorders and their management are essential. Therapy is adequate rehydration, insulin treatment, electrolyte replacement, and handling of the underlying causative disease. Herein, we present an 83-year-old male with an extremely altered blood gas analysis after a surgical procedure of his left hand due to a phlegmon and describe the successful treatment through intensive care.</p>","PeriodicalId":21418,"journal":{"name":"SAGE Open Medical Case Reports","volume":"12 ","pages":"2050313X241282761"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11456190/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"SAGE Open Medical Case Reports","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2050313X241282761","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2024/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Hyperglycemia and diabetic ketoacidosis are serious and life-threatening emergencies in diabetes patients. Early recognition of the symptoms of these disorders and their management are essential. Therapy is adequate rehydration, insulin treatment, electrolyte replacement, and handling of the underlying causative disease. Herein, we present an 83-year-old male with an extremely altered blood gas analysis after a surgical procedure of his left hand due to a phlegmon and describe the successful treatment through intensive care.
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SAGE Open Medical Case Reports (indexed in PubMed Central) is a peer reviewed, open access journal. It aims to provide a publication home for short case reports and case series, which often do not find a place in traditional primary research journals, but provide key insights into real medical cases that are essential for physicians, and may ultimately help to improve patient outcomes. SAGE Open Medical Case Reports does not limit content due to page budgets or thematic significance. Papers are subject to rigorous peer review and are selected on the basis of whether the research is sound and deserves publication. By virtue of not restricting papers to a narrow discipline, SAGE Open Medical Case Reports facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers, whether within or between disciplines. Case reports can span the full spectrum of medicine across the health sciences in the broadest sense, including: Allergy/Immunology Anaesthesia/Pain Cardiovascular Critical Care/ Emergency Medicine Dentistry Dermatology Diabetes/Endocrinology Epidemiology/Public Health Gastroenterology/Hepatology Geriatrics/Gerontology Haematology Infectious Diseases Mental Health/Psychiatry Nephrology Neurology Nursing Obstetrics/Gynaecology Oncology Ophthalmology Orthopaedics/Rehabilitation/Occupational Therapy Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine Pathology Pharmacoeconomics/health economics Pharmacoepidemiology/Drug safety Psychopharmacology Radiology Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology/ Clinical Immunology Sports Medicine Surgery Toxicology Urology Women''s Health.