The use of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors is increasingly common in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) management. Patients taking an SGLT2 inhibitor are at risk for euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (EDKA). We report an intraoperative diagnosis of EDKA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic creates a need to protect health care workers (HCWs) from patients undergoing aerosol-generating procedures which may transmit the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Existing personal containment devices (PCDs) may protect HCWs from respiratory droplets but not from potentially dangerous respiratory-generated aerosols. We describe a new PCD and its aerosol containment capabilities.
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