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Hypoglycemia.

D M Yealy·A B Wolfson
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Hypoglycemia is a common and easily treatable condition in the pre-hospital and Emergency Department settings. Recognition of the varied faces of clinical hypoglycemia, coupled with determination of blood glucose levels and expeditious glucose replacement, can prevent serious morbidity. A directed history, careful physical examination, and appropriate laboratory studies during the Emergency Department visit can uncover the etiology of hypoglycemia in most cases, and in the rest will contribute to any further diagnostic evaluation that may prove necessary.

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D M Yealy, A B Wolfson. 1989. Hypoglycemia.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2680467/

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