Diabetic ketoacidosis (ABG interpretation)

HIGH-YIELD Appears 1×

Teaching point

A diabetic with vomiting, abdominal pain and Kussmaul breathing whose ABG shows a high-anion-gap metabolic acidosis with respiratory compensation (low pH, low HCO3, low pCO2) has DKA.

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