Endocrine emergencies

Endocrine Emergencies

• To recognize the etiologies and clinical manifestations of endocrine crises involving the pancreas, thyroid, adrenal, and pituitary glands • To review the optimal confirmatory laboratory tests for these disorders in the acute care setting • To delineate the initial treatment for each specific endocrine emergency • To cover important pearls and selected caveats related to the diagnosis and man...

Diabetic and endocrine emergencies.

Endocrine emergencies constitute only a small percentage of the emergency workload of general doctors, comprising about 1.5% of all hospital admission in England in 2004-5. Most of these are diabetes related with the remaining conditions totalling a few hundred cases at most. Hence any individual doctor might not have sufficient exposure to be confident in their management. This review discusse...

Oncologic Hemorrhagic and Endocrine Emergencies

Highlighting Indication of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in endocrine emergencies

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) has been repeatedly used to rescue patients with cardiopulmonary arrest. However, its clinical utility in endocrine emergencies remains unclear. Herein, we describe a case series of 12 patients presenting with refractory shock secondary to endocrine emergencies who were rescued by ECMO support. Patients were identified between 2005 and 2012 from our EC...

[Diagnosis and management of endocrine emergencies in pediatrics].

The study of endocrine emergencies in childhood is important due to their high mortality and residual morbidity, that can be reduced with an adequate diagnosis and/or therapy. In this article, we review hypoglycemia, adrenal crisis, hypocalcemia, hypercalcemia and thyroid storm in children, with focus on initial diagnostic approach and management.