Diabetic ketoacidosis screening

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Syed Hassan A. Kazmi BSc, MD [2]

There is insufficient evidence to recommend routine screening for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) but urine ketone dip test may be used in high risk population.

• The urine ketone dip test has high sensitivity for detecting DKA and a high negative predictive value for excluding DKA in hyperglycemic patients with diabetes.
• It is considered that urine dip test is a better tool for screening of DKA than serum ketone levels or serum bicarbonate levels.^[1][2]

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