Anaesthesia for patients with pituitary disease / Paul G. Murphy -- Thyroid disease / Peter A. Farling -- Parathyroid disease / Philip R. Michael, Jane K. Beattie and Jennifer M. Hunter -- Adrenal disease : cortex and medulla / Charles S. Reilly -- Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours including carcinoid / Christopher J.R. Parker -- Multiple endocrine neoplasia / Saffron Whitehead -- Diabetes : aetiology and pathophysiology / George M. Hall -- Drugs used in diabetes mellitus / Grainne Nicholson -- Management of diabetes in surgical inpatients / George M. Hall -- Management of diabetes in obstetric patients / Neville Robinson and David J. Vaughan -- Management of diabetes in paediatric surgery / Ann E. Black and Angus McEwan -- Management of diabetes in ambulatory surgery / Heidi J. Robertshaw -- The endocrine response to critical illness / Steven Ball and Simon V. Baudouin -- Tight glucose control using intensive insulin therapy in the critically ill / Mark E. Seubert, Saheed Kahn, and A.B. Johan Groeneveld -- Glucocorticoids in the critically ill / Pauline M.O'Neil and Nigel R. Webster -- Diabetic hyperglycaemic crises / Barbara Philips -- Thyroid dysfunction and critical care / Brian Mullan -- Disorders of sodium balance / Martin Smith