Scand J Trauma Resus
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Scand J Trauma Resus · Feb 2018
Hypoglycaemia without diabetes encountered by emergency medical services: a retrospective cohort study.
The current study investigates the incidence, aetiology, and outcome of hypoglycaemia of patients without diabetes in the EMS. ⋯ Hypoglycaemia without diabetes is commonly observed among the hypoglycaemic EMS cases. Main causes for it are alcohol abuse, hypothermia, and malnutrition. Mortality correlated with age, higher priority dispatch codes, and plasma glucose rate in multivariate logistic regression analysis. Some of the etiological subgroups carry a markedly high mortality rate.