#372 Endocrine Emergencies featuring Dr. Sara Markley Webster
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Dosing in the Outpatient Setting?
The dose for hydrocorner zone is very much dependent on somebody's body surface area. We'll usually split that dose up like two thirds or three quarters in the morning and the rest around four o'clock. If they're still having orthostasis or they're having abdominal pain and nausea, we'll bump the dose up. But when you're thinking about prophylaxis, you don't have to do it for the physiologic replacement doses of hydro quarter zone. The average person with adrenal insufficiency should be getting 15 to 20 milligrams per day.
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