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A 23-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes presents with abdominal pain, polyuria and vomiting. Capillary glucose is 25 mmol/L, venous bicarbonate is 12 mmol/L and ketones are elevated. She is tachycardic, hypotensive and clinically dehydrated. What is the most important immediate management priority?

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