One case report of adrenal crisis with difficulty in weaning after lumbar spinal canal decompression surgery / 中华内分泌外科杂志

ABSTRACT

Adrenocortical crisis (AC) is a kind of endocrine emergency, often occurs in infection, shock, trauma, or postoperative, if the processing is not handling timely, can endanger patient's life.But as the disease is not common and the clinical symptoms are not typical,so it is easy to be misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis.This case was a "lumbar spinal canal decompression surgery" patient, who appeared postoperative confusion, oxygenation decline,and could not seperated from breathing machine, clinical manifestations were atypical.