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How should diabetics respond to hypoglycemia with coma?

How should diabetics respond to hypoglycemia with coma?

Encountered a patient, first to clarify whether the hypoglycemic coma. The last time a patient came in on his back, one side of the blood glucose 2.3, past history of diabetes, family members v. not eaten earlier on the medication, immediately opened the intravenous channel, cardiac monitoring, static push 40ml 50% GS, and then 500ml 5% GS to maintain, push high glucose woke up. Diabetics are not afraid of high blood sugar, but hypoglycemic coma, will kill.

Coma should go to the hospital quickly to rescue, because prolonged hypoglycemia can cause cerebral neuropathy. Coma at home is no way, the patient has no gag reflex, can not eat, only intravenous infusion of glucose supplementation.

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