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Diabetic Ketoacidosis

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Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a potentially life-threatening complication of diabetes that is characterized by uncontrolled hyperglycemia, anion gap metabolic acidosis, and ketosis. Strategies for medical management that is safe for both mother and fetus will be presented. The anesthetic management of labor and delivery as well as operative deliveries will be discussed.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Catherine Traill M.D. & Stephen H. Halpern M.D.

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  1. Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Suzanne K. W. Mankowitz

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Traill, C., Halpern, S.H. (2018). Diabetic Ketoacidosis. In: Mankowitz, S. (eds) Consults in Obstetric Anesthesiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59680-8_45

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