Open AccessDoes the severity of diabetic ketoacidosis in children with type 1 diabetes change during the COVID-19 pandemic? A single-center experience from a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Fatih Varol
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
i̇stanbul kuzey klinikleri
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2148-4902
DOI - 10.14744/nci.2022.09634
Subject(s) - medicine , diabetic ketoacidosis , type 1 diabetes , pandemic , pediatric intensive care unit , covid-19 , pediatrics , diabetes mellitus , intensive care unit , neonatal intensive care unit , emergency medicine , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , endocrinology
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health-care services for diseases other than COVID-19 were interrupted, and patient referrals to health institutions were postponed due to their fear of being infected with COVID-19. Under this situation, we conducted this study to evaluate the clinical and laboratory findings of COVID-19 in patients with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) hospitalized in our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with the diagnosis of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) during the pandemic period, and the impact of the pandemic on these findings.