The Nurse Is Assigned to Care for a Patient Who

The nurse is assigned to care for a patient who presented to the emergency department with diabetic ketoacidosis.A continuous insulin intravenous infusion is started,and hourly bedside glucose monitoring is ordered.The targeted blood glucose value after the first hour of therapy is

A) 70 to 120 mg/dL.
B) a decrease of 25 to 50 mg/dL compared with admitting values.
C) a decrease of 35 to 90 mg/dL compared with admitting values.
D) less than 200 mg/dL.

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