Butcher's Broom and Reduced Diabetic Ketoacidosis Incidence

• An unusual case of Butcher's Broom precipitating diabetic ketoacidosis.

  • 2013-09
  • Case Report
  • The Journal of emergency medicine 45(3)
  • • Praveen P Sadarmin
    • Jonathan Timperley

  • PubMed: 23849361
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.11.087

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Diabetic Ketoacidosis Incidence

  • Low evidence

  A 39-year-old woman developed diabetic ketoacidosis 5 days after beginning therapy with Butcher's Broom for mild ankle swelling.

  Effect

  Harmful

  Effect size

  Large

  Significant

  Yes