Akutní stavy a komplikace u starších diabetiků.

Title in English Acute conditions and complications in elderly diabetics
Authors

WEBER Pavel

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Lékařské listy (Příloha Zdravotnických novin)
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Other specializations of internal medicine
Keywords Acute conditions - advanced age - diabetes - hypoglycemia - non-ketoacidotic hyperosmolar coma
Description The hypoglycaemia can be the cause of very hard morbidity itself, if its very deep and prolonged, it can be lethal. We have to think about it in the differential diagnosis ( in senium) in the cases of mental disorders ( delirium ), alteration of the state of consciousness and cramps. The decrease of the risk can be reached by the consequntial use of the all principal of the modern therapy in diapbetes like education, more often self-monitoring of the glycaemia, flexible insuline regimes, rational goals of the long term compensation and professional supervision and support.

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