Chapter 42- Adrenal Gland Disorder

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IMPORTANT NOTE – PLEASE READ FIRST: This continuing education assessment requires that you first purchase the text book: Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice. Please go to our home page: http://www.rxugace.com/ and click on “Books” for more information Prior To Registering for this assessment.

Upon completion of the corresponding textbook chapter in Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice and this on-line assessment, the reader should be able to:

1. Explain the regulation and physiologic roles of hormones produced by the adrenal glands.
2. Recognize the clinical presentation of patients with adrenal insufficiency.
3. Describe the pharmacologic management of patients with acute and chronic adrenal insufficiency.
4. Recommend therapy monitoring parameters for patients with adrenal insufficiency.
5. Recognize the clinical presentation of Cushing’s syndrome and the physiologic consequences of cortisol excess.
6. Recommend strategies to prevent the development of Cushing’s syndrome associated with exogeneous glucocorticoid administration.
7. Describe the pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic management of patients with Cushing’s syndrome.
8. Recommend therapy monitoring parameters for patients with Cushing’s syndrome.

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