Associate Professor UT Health Sciences in San Antonio San Antonio, Texas
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Session Description: Hyperosmolar hyperglycemic syndrome (HHS) is one of the diabetic emergencies that emergency physicians need to recognize and manage. With increasing boarding times, emergency physicians are more frequently tasked with the critical management of this disease while awaiting an ICU bed to open up. A lot of the guidelines base the management of these patients on the same guidelines of the care of the patient with DKA. However, these disease processes are vastly different and the focus should be less on the sugar and more on the sodium and osmolarity. The speaker will discuss critical diagnostic steps as well as management steps in the care of these critically ill patients.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss the diagnostic criteria of HHS and briefly discuss the pathophysiology of this disease.
Discuss specific management differences between DKA and HHS patients.
DIscuss what monitoring steps need to be performed in the ED in boarding patients with HHS.
Discuss the diagnostic criteria of HHS and briefly discuss the pathophysiology of this disease.