ESPE Abstracts

Background: Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious and common complication of type 1 diabetes mellitus. Often it occurs due to non-compliance of the patient’s insulin regimen, especially of the basal insulin. In this patient, about 6 months after being diagnosed, she presented to the emergency department in DKA, with a pH of 6.9 with altered mental status, which required intubation for 1 week. She was treated with an IV insulin drip and fluids. As a result of her manage...