I almost died laughing after checking my patient's blood sugar.

[JPINFV]

Thanks. I never did study Latin. Lazy chick like me, I never looked it up.

Meh, I just utilized Google...

 

[zmedic]

I just taste the urine, if it's sweet I give insulin. Works pretty well.

 

[usalsfyre]

I just taste the urine, if it's sweet I give insulin. Works pretty well.

So how do you have a scale to quantify how sweet it taste? Brown sugar=little high, Grandma's sweet tea=obvious DKA?

 

[8jimi8]

I just taste the urine, if it's sweet I give insulin. Works pretty well.

this is the method i use instead of a halo test

 

[boingo]

I wondered whether it was HHNK vs DKA, but when her ETCO2 was 80, that settled that.

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I'm not sure I follow your logic?

 

[8jimi8]

I'm not sure I follow your logic?

Kussmaul

 

[Martyn]

And no one mentioned pear drops...hmmm, yummy :sad:

 

[boingo]

Kussmaul

Sure, but an EtCO2 of 80 mm Hg certainly doesn't reflect that.

 

[8jimi8]

Sure, but an EtCO2 of 80 mm Hg certainly doesn't reflect that.

:. Not hhnk or dka