
#372 Endocrine Emergencies featuring Dr. Sara Markley Webster
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
00:00
Adrenal Insufficiency
The steroid dosing that we talked about before is like the same across the board. So when in doubt, when you're worried for adrenal crisis, you're going with those high doses of steroids just to cover your bases. Typically a lot of electrolyte abnormalities are going to resolve with the fluids and the glucocorticoids. And so like hypercalcemia is typically just going to go away when you treat the adrenal insufficiency and you give the glucoc Corticoids and with the fluids. But it's not necessarily something you have to focus in on and be like, oh man, I need to treat this calcium of 11. It's going to get better
Transcript
Play full episode