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How do you adjust your management strategy to address the unique needs of anuric end-stage kidney disease patients when treating diabetic ketoacidosis?

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Nephrology · Rush Medical College
  1. There is no osmotic diuresis, and they do not need IVFluid, the opposite is true they may appear intravascularly overloaded, and will respond to insulin alone, they do not need HD for this.
  2. They will not be K deficient, do not give K.
  3. Their potassium will likely respond to insulin alone, and should...

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