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Complicaciones metabólicas agudas, Cetoacidosis diabética y manejos en pacientes adultos diabéticos tipo 2 en 2024
(Universidad Santiago de Cali, 2024) Hormaza De La Cruz, Francisco Javier https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5711- 924X; García Quiñones, Angelica Alejandra (Director)
The three acute metabolic complications in diabetes mellitus (type 2 diabetes) are usually hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), and the hyperglycemic hyperosmolar state (HHS). Hypoglycemia, which must meet the criterion of very low blood glucose levels of less than 50 mg/dL, is the complication usually found in the pharmacological treatment of diabetic patients as a response to insulin treatment at the beginning of the disease due to excess insulin. the prescribed dose or in geriatric patients who suffer from senile, vascular or Alzheimer's dementia and who lose cognitive and memory capacity. Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute metabolic complication of diabetes mellitus (type 2), although it predominates in type 1 diabetes mellitus, especially in young debuting subjects, but it is becoming common in emergency services in diabetes mellitus (type 2) due to poor pharmacological adherence to insulin and the lack of timely delivery of antidiabetics due to the problems presented in the health sector in Colombia, associated with SGLT2 oral antidiabetics as an adverse effect and the increase in infectious conditions in diabetics