This is a real thing. About two years ago, as a diabetes expert, I attended a medical dispute appraisal meeting in Beijing. A 21-year-old youth, who was hospitalized in a community medical center for 7 days due to fever, did not get any better, so he was transferred to the emergency department of a large hospital. As soon as the doctor saw that the patient was typical of pneumonia, he began to give antibiotics. Three hours later, the test results showed that the patient's fasting blood glucose was 22 mmol / L (normally below 6), and had acidosis. The doctor then confirmed that the patient had diabetes and ketoacidosis, so he immediately replaced the injected sugar liquid with salt water and treated it according to diabetes combined with pneumonia. Unexpectedly, two hours later, the patient's heart and breath stopped. The hospital rescued him for four or five hours, but he didn't come back after all & hellip; & hellip; it is reported that the young man is the only child and lives with his divorced mother.
After reading this medical record, I feel very sad, because diabetes combined with pneumonia is completely curable. If the patient can get timely and effective treatment, he can survive. Suppose that as soon as the patient goes to the community hospital, the doctor will check his blood sugar and find that he has serious hyperglycemia. Suppose that as soon as the patient is transferred to the emergency department of a large hospital, the doctor immediately thinks of checking blood sugar and giving active and effective treatment as soon as possible, and the patient's life can be saved. However, there are no such assumptions in life. For a hospital, it's the death of a patient; for a society, it's the loss of a youth; for his mother, the pillar of life may collapse.
This case fully illustrates the importance of blood glucose detection. Blood glucose detection can not only make us discover hyperglycemia in time, but also discover hypoglycemia in time. In such cases, severe hyperglycemia can cause death; in turn, severe hypoglycemia can also cause disability or even death. For diabetic patients, especially for those receiving insulin treatment, blood glucose detection is very important. Without blood glucose test, there is no safe and effective treatment. So it's not too much to say that a blood sugar test can save a life.