[SGT Shoutmore]

I have heard of "death by hypo", but I am more of the belief that this is more an urban legend, not to say it doesn't happen, but I am convinced it is a rarity. I have been on calls while working for AMR (Ambulance) where I have found insulin dependent diabetics passed out at home, typically early morning from overnight hypos where we hooked them up with an IV and a D-50, (Nothing NPO to unconcious patients) and they will rise like dracula popping up out of a coffin, a trip to to the ER to monitor and a meal and they are up and running again.

I *cough* have been low to where I was *cough* "gorked" out, and *cough* went through that myself. *blush* My own darn fault and pretty much avoidable... Bad Shoutmore... Bad Shoutmore... *Hangs head*

Now, operating machinery of ANY kind where a hypo is likely is an insane notion, a more likely even is where trauma was secondary to a hypo resulting in death.

Botton line, CAN hypos cause death? Yes, while uncommon, the answer is still yes, I am also convinced that there are other things going on systematically where the hypo was contributory, perhaps even antagonizing and exascerbating other systemic issues/other complications that are common with diabetics, more likely hypoglycemia combined with driving, swimming, operating machinery, etc, where hypo was more of mechanizm of injury.