Akutní stavy a komplikace u starších diabetiků.
Title in English | Acute conditions and complications in elderly diabetics |
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Authors | |
Year of publication | 2009 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Lékařské listy (Příloha Zdravotnických novin) |
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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. |