Postoperative management after adrenal, pituitary and thyroid surgery
What to check and when after endocrine surgery. Steroid cover and cortisol testing after pituitary and adrenal operations, sodium and the triphasic response after transsphenoidal surgery, potassium after aldosteronoma, hypotension and hypoglycaemia after phaeochromocytoma, and calcium, PTH and thyroxine after thyroidectomy.
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