Is the cortrosyn test necessary in high basal corticoid patients with septic shock?

Crit Care Med. 2009 Jan;37(1):385-6; author reply 386-7. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31818f2ee4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Adrenal Insufficiency / blood
  • Adrenal Insufficiency / complications
  • Adrenal Insufficiency / diagnosis*
  • Adrenal Insufficiency / drug therapy
  • Cosyntropin*
  • Humans
  • Hydrocortisone / blood*
  • Shock, Septic / complications

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Cosyntropin
  • Hydrocortisone