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After severe stress that means injury as trauma burn and operations, the patient may be considered subject to a complex and interlocking endocrinology that has three main effects, namely catecholamine discharge, pituitary adrenal and renal-adrenal stimuli and posterior pituitary stimulation.
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Stremmel, W. (1979). Hormonal Dysregulation in Stress Following Operation and Trauma. In: Tavares, B.M., Frey, R. (eds) Acute Care. Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine/Anaesthesiologie und Intensivmedizin, vol 116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67211-8_11
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