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ea0037ep495 | Diabetes (complications & therapy) | ECE2015

Eighteen grams of glucose are necessary to treat severe hypoglycaemia: experience from the Emergency Medical Services Department

Cohen Charlotte , Fysekidis Marinos , Etiennar Celia , Ginaux Lucie , Sebbah Jean-Luc , Cohen Regis , Lakhnati Philippe

We know that non-severe hypoglycaemia (SH) should be treated with the immediate intake of 15–20 g of oral glucose, there are no data according to our knowledge in the current literature for the dose of glucose that is necessary to inject in SH. We have analysed retrospectively the treatment of pre hospital SHs as reported after an emergency call for intervention. Our primary objective was to know the dose of the given glucose and our secondary objective was to know the fa...