Title: Adrenal Crisis in Trauma Patients<br/>
Author: Robert Flint<br/>
<a href='mailto:rflint@som.umaryland.edu'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/>
Link: <a href='https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4634/'>https://umem.org/educational_pearls/4634/</a><hr/><p>This article serves as a reminder that trauma can and will precipitate adrenal insufficiency and crisis in those trauma patients who are on steroids pre-injury. Look for prednisone or hydrocortisone as well as autoimmune or rheumatologic diseases on pre-injury medication list and history. Consider the diagnosis in trauma patients with refractory hypotension not responsive to vasopressors. Replacement therapy with hydrocortisone is the therapy.</p>
<fieldset><legend>References</legend><h2><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-surgery">Current Surgery</a></h2>
<p><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-surgery/vol/62/issue/6">Volume 62, Issue 6</a>, November–December 2005, Pages 633-637</p>
<h2>Relative Adrenal Insufficiency Among Trauma Patients in a Community Hospital</h2>
<p>Brian R. Beeman MD ?, Thomas J. Veverka MD †, Phillip Lambert MD ‡, Dennis M. Boysen Md</p>
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