…Full blood count. Plasma glucose before insulin. Creatine kinase in suspected rhabdomyolysis. Phosphate, urate and lactate dehydrogenase in suspected tumour lysis syndrome. A digoxin level…

…potassium, bicarbonate or blood gas, calcium, phosphate, glucose and a full blood count. 5. Take a urine dipstick and, where the cause is unclear or…

…50 mg/mL (corresponding to 0.6 mmol sodium bicarbonate per mL) for bolus and infusion, and glucose 50 mg/mL as carrier solution according…

…prevention of microvascular complications, but intensive glucose lowering alone has shown little or no consistent effect on cardiovascular complications in T2DM. Cardiovascular benefit depends substantially…

…glucose has already begun to rise by the time it is measured, for example after relatives have given carbohydrate or glucagon. In a person without…

…to ketoacidosis within hours. Treatment with correction doses alone according to the glucose value, without basal insulin (a so called sliding scale), gives poorer control…

…Fasting is required for triglycerides but not for cholesterol, nor for glucose when the diagnosis is based on HbA1c. Albumin affects the total calcium — use…

…arrhythmia. 4. Take a full blood count, electrolytes, creatinine, glucose, high sensitivity troponin and, where needed, coagulation tests. Blood sampling must not delay reperfusion. 5…

…and management of intracranial haemorrhage and angioedema. First of all Measure Comment : : Plasma glucose Hypoglycaemia can mimic stroke. Measure immediately and correct marked hypoglycaemia Time…

…and ACTH first only if this does not delay treatment. Plus fluid and glucose Adrenal crisis: hypotension that does not respond to fluid, abdominal pain…