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Treatment of diabetic coma with low-dose injections of insulin.

Twenty-one patients in severe diabetic coma were treated with small doses of insulin at a rate of 4.1 units per hour (total dose about 100 units per 24 hours). Using single doses of 4 to 10 units by the intravenous or intramuscular routes the fall of blood glucose was steady in all cases. In the treatment of diabetic coma this regimen of insulin administration has proved simple, safe and effective since 1946. Main dangers during recompensation of diabetic coma are: hypovolaemia with oliguria -- anuria, dysequilibrium syndrome with cerebral edema and hypokalaemia. Therefore early intensive and