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Chapter 46 - A Cold, Unconscious 12-Year-Old Girl

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Louisa Brock  and
Marilyn McDougall
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 12-year-old girl was referred to your service after being found collapsed and unresponsive in the bathroom at home by her parents at 07:00 on the morning of referral, and brought in by ambulance to A&E.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 253 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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BSPED (British Society for Paediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes) Integrated Care Pathway for the management of children and young people with Diabetic ketoacidosis. www.bsped.org.uk/media/1742/dka-icp-2020-v1_1.pdf.Google Scholar
Clinical Guidance. Paediatric critical care: Diabetic ketoacidosis www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/resources/our-services/hospital/south-thames-retrieval-service/diabetic-ketoacidosis-jan-2018.pdf.Google Scholar
Glaser, N. Treatment and complications of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents. Up To Date. www.uptodate.com/contents/diabetic-ketoacidosis-in-children-treatment-and-complications.Google Scholar
Mahoney, CP, Vlcek, W, DelAguila, M . Risk factors for developing brain herniation during diabetic ketoacidosis. Pediatr Neurol 1999;21(4):721–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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