Adrenal Crisis

Want to broaden your differential for hypotension? Do you have a younger patient with hypotension and lab abnormalities? A patient with hypotension refractory to pressers? Think of acute adrenal insufficiency!

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I dont have much in the way of additional pearls today - this is pretty self explanatory.

Concerned that your patient ran out of cortisol? Give cortisol (hydrocortisone). You wont diagnose it if you dont suspect it - so keep it on the differential!

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