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A 32-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes presents with abdominal pain, nausea and increasing drowsiness. Capillary glucose is 26 mmol/L, venous pH is 7.12, bicarbonate 10 mmol/L and serum ketones are markedly elevated. Which is the most appropriate initial fluid resuscitation in adult diabetic ketoacidosis?

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