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And now on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk, episode 43. I'm your co-host, Dr. Kane.

I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. Today we're covering what a typical practitioner should know about diabetic ketoacidosis.

So this is by no means comprehensive, but it's kind of a good overview to have a good idea of

D.K.A. happens, diabetic ketoacidosis, and how we treat that.

And I'm really glad to be doing this episode with you, Dr. Kane, because I teach

diabetes and I go over the emergent treatment of DCA, but I'm not talking from a practice

perspective versus this is something that you see in your routine practice. So we would appreciate

your clinical pros here. And even in the, even in the world of psychiatric medicine,

we see a fair amount of diabetes,

insulin resistance, sometimes secondary to medications, sometimes secondary to lifestyle

choices. So it's always relevant. Yeah. And I would say that, you know, D.KA is very common

for our 17-bed ICU. It would be a typical week would be a DKA patient a day or every other day.

So we definitely see a lot of DCA in most intensive care unit settings,

just by virtue of the monitoring required and the kinds of medications we give.

Generally, these patients have a very brief ICU stay,

typically between 12 and 24 hours until we kind of get them stabilized.

So Dr. Patel, what exactly is diabetic ketoacidosis versus diabetes or versus many people

when they hear ketones, they think of the Atkins diet?

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