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Stress-Dose Steroids

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Patients are treated with glucocorticoids for a multitude of conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), organ transplantation, autoimmune diseases, and other inflammatory states. This chapter addresses supplemental steroid dosing (commonly called “stress-dose steroids”) for patients with tertiary (iatrogenic) adrenal insufficiency as a result of glucocorticoid (GC) use. The use of supplemental perioperative steroids in patients with adrenal insufficiency is controversial.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Kara J. Mitchell M.D.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine Department of Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

    Molly Blackley Jackson , Somnath Mookherjee  & Nason P. Hamlin ,  & 

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Mitchell, K.J. (2015). Stress-Dose Steroids. In: Jackson, M.B., Mookherjee, S., Hamlin, N.P. (eds) The Perioperative Medicine Consult Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09366-6_14

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