Thyroid --- Thyroid storm: acute thyrotoxicosis --- Amiodarone induced thyrotoxicosis --- Ocular emergencies in Graves’ ophthalmopathy --- Myxedema coma --- Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis --- Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis: a review and suggestions for treatment --- Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis – management of the recurrent laryngeal nerve injuries --- Post thyroidectomy emergencies: management of tracheal and esophageal injuries --- Radioactive Iodine (131I) Thyroid Ablation and the Salivary Glands --- Parathyroid --- Hypercalcemic crisis --- Hypocalcemic crisis: acute postoperative and chronic management of hypocalcemia --- Adrenal Glands --- Acute adrenal hypertensive emergencies: pheochromocytoma, Cushing’s, hyperaldosteronism --- Pheochromocytoma: perioperative and Intraoperative management --- Acute Adrenal insufficiency --- Endocrine Pancreas and Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors --- Diabetic emergencies: ketoacidosis, hyperglycaemic hyperosmolar state and hypoglycaemia --- Pancreatic neuroendocrine emergencies (gastrinoma, insulinoma, glucoganoma, VIPoma, somatostatinoma, PPoma) --- Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs): gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumors --- Carcinoid Syndrome and Carcinoid Crisis --- Pituitary --- Post-Surgical and Post-Traumatic Hyponatremia --- Diabetes Insipidus and Acute Hypernatremia --- Hypopituitarism --- Pituitary Apoplexy --- Endocrine emergencies during pregnancy --- Endocrine emergencies during pregnancy --- Graves' hyperthyroidism in pregnancy --- mmunotherapy - associated endocrinopathies --- Endocrinopathies Associated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors --- Endocrine emergencies in children --- Endocrine Responses in Critically ill and Trauma Patients --- Use of Potassium Iodide Ingestion in a Nuclear Emergency

Endocrine emergencies are often potentially life-threatening and can be easily overlooked in patients with no history of endocrine disease. Endocrine Emergencies is a practical guide to identification and treatment for today’s clinicians, offering essential coverage of common and serious emergencies related to endocrine metabolic conditions of the thyroid, parathyroid, pituitary, and adrenal glands.

Key Features
Guides clinicians on how to recognize, diagnose, and treat each condition using up-to-date diagnostic techniques and therapeutics.

Provides full-color, state-of-the-art coverage of key topics such as acute thyrotoxicosis and thyroid storm, ocular emergencies in Graves’ ophthalmopathy, diabetic ketoacidosis, hypopituitarism, postoperative thyroid surgical emergencies, pheochromocytoma, and much more.

Features separate chapters on emergencies related to neuroendocrine tumors, pregnant patients, and pediatric patients.

Includes sections on emergency overview, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in each chapter.

Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.