28th May 2025

You are on the cardiac arrest team and called to a peri-arrest on a medical ward to assess a 20-year-old female patient that the nurses report is unresponsive and confused.

You are on the cardiac arrest team and called to a peri-arrest on a medical ward to assess a 20-year-old female patient that the nurses report is unresponsive and confused. On assessment, you gather that the patient was admitted for diabetes ketoacidosis 10 hours ago and has an intravenous infusion running. A venous blood gas shows that the DKA is resolving. You examine the patient with an ABCDE approach and not the GCS to be 12, they . What should be ordered urgently for this patient?

Select the SINGLE most appropriate option from the list below. Select ONE option only.