Alcoholic Ketoacidosis Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders MSD Manual Professional Edition
Management is based around exclusion of serious pathology and specific treatment for AKA where it is present. A possible link between AKA and sudden death in chronic alcoholism has been proposed but remains unconfirmed. Detection of acidosis may be complicated by concurrent metabolic alkalosis due to vomiting, resulting in a relatively normal pH; the main […]