Cosmopolitan Club on Diabetic Ketoacidosis April 21

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The Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora’s regularly-scheduled meeting for Thursday April 21, will be held at the Oak Street Restaurant in North Aurora. Dinner/social will start at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.. Guests are welcome!

Guest speaker will be diabetes education specialist, Bernadine Holland, MSN, MBA, RN, CDCES, from the University of Chicago Medicine-Center for Clinical Professional Practice. Bernadine will give a resource- driven educational presentation on Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA), which is a life-threatening, yet avoidable acute complication from Type 1 diabetes, and alarmingly, five or more episodes of DKA increase the risk of premature mortality by 23.4%.

For additional information or to attend the meeting please send E-mail: cosmoaurorail@gmail.com.

— Cosmopolitan Club of Aurora

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