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A 24 year old male with diabetic keto acidosis

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E-LOG GENERAL MEDICINE Hi, This is G. Nandini a third semester medical student. This is an e-LOG depicting patient's de-identified data centered approach for learning medicine. This log has been created after taking consent from  patient and his family. Here we discuss about patient's problems with a series of inputs with an aim to solve them.       A CASE OF DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS CHIEF COMPLAINTS: A 24 year male patient sand contractor by occupation came with chief complaints of * Loss of appetite and generalised weakness since 1 week HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: *   patient was apparently asymptomatic 1 week back then he had generalized weakness associated with loss of appetite and loss of weight(2kg)  .  * There is no associated fever, vomitings, loose stools. Pain abdomen, chest pain, palpitations.  HISTORY OF PAST ILLNESS: *  2 Weeks back patient  have episode of giddiness went to local RMP and  found to be having high BP (170/120mm of hg) and gave tablets and injections fo