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Relative Potency and Characteristics Steroids:
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Articular Steroid Injection:
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Peri-Operative Dosing (for patient on Steroids):
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MSK changes associatted w/ Steroids:
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Steroids: for Rheumatoid Arthritis:
- when giving steroids for inflammatory arthritis, be sure that the arthritis is not due to a
cryoglobinemia (from hepatitis or other), because this may actually provoke further viremia;
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Steroid Protocol for Spinal Cord Injury:
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Steroids for Hypercalcemia:
- in some circumstances, glucocorticoids can be effective Ca lowering agents;
- consider 200 to 300 mg of
hydrocortisone, or its equivalent, is given intravenously every day for three to five days;
- in general, patients with nonhematologic cancers do not respond to glucocorticoids, nor do those with primary
hyperparathyroidism;
- References:
