Why is there abdominal pain in diabetic ketoacidosis

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Notwithstanding the magnitude of the problem, well-established and relevant solutions exist, including organized trauma care. Organized trauma care is a coordinated effort to deliver the full spectrum of care to injured patients, from the time of the injury through community reintegration.4 The organization of pre-hospital care, acute care (that is, hospital-based care, including emergency, critical and surgical care) and rehabilitation services is typically administered by a public agency. The responsibilities of such agencies are to provide leadership, governance and appropriate finances, support prevention initiatives, coordinate service delivery, establish minimum standards of care, designate trauma centres, enable quality improvement programming and ensure system evaluation

1. Do potassium channel activators such as nicorandil have any benefit in the treatment of a diabetic patient with cardiovascular complications?

2. Is a dosage of 2.5 mg/day of methyltestosterone, as a component in some multivitamin formulae, safe to give to diabetics or will it make the diabetes more difficult to control (see also Chapter 5, question 5)?

3. How does diabetes mellitus cause atherosclerosis?

4. How does diabetes cause renal damage, especially diabetic nephropathy with the presence of microalbuminuria?

5. Type 1 diabetes causes nephropathy in 40% of cases and type 2 causes it in 20% of cases but the most common cause of nephropathy we see is type 2, why?

6. Why is intractable vomiting seen in diabetes mellitus and how can it be managed?

7. Is gabapentin superior to carbamazepine in terms of efficacy in the treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy? What are its side-effects?

8. Why is diabetic ketoacidosis more common in type 1 diabetes?

9. Why is there abdominal pain in diabetic ketoacidosis?

10. Grades of ketonuria are sometimes mentioned. I have not been able to locate a detailed description in textbooks and would be grateful if you could explain the grades of ketonuria or recommend suitable reading material.

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