Mary, age 42, attended A&E with blood glucose 2.8mmol/L, BP normal, pulse 86/min and stable, GCS 15/15.
Q1. List four symptoms that Mary may come across
Q2. Discuss the management of Mary's problem.
Q3. An hour later, Mary's GCS change to 3/15 with blood glucose 1.2mmol/L, what are the intervention for her?
Q4. Rule out the emergency interventions in the following case: amputation of right thumb.
Mary, age 42, attended A&E with blood glucose 2.8mmol/L, BP normal,pulse 86/min and stable, GCS 15?
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Her blood glucose is very low and the retest an hour later shows she is crashing. The intervention would be a glucagon injection and then monitoring of glycemic function.
Possible symptoms would be physical weakness, inability to stay awake, looking very pale, shivering, and eventual coma.