by admin | Oct 4, 2017 | Medical
Back in April of this year I wrote a blog on the discovery by Dr. Paul Marik, a critical care physician at East Virginia Medical School, that a cocktail of vitamin C, hydrocortisone and thiamine was remarkably effective at treating patients with severe sepsis and...
by admin | Apr 3, 2017 | Medical
Background A definitive cure for sepsis has eluded physicians and scientists since the advent of modern medicine. Over the years, numerous agents have undergone testing in clinical trials, but most have shown limited to no efficacy for the treatment of this deadly...
by admin | Mar 14, 2016 | Medical
Recently, we’ve been making a number of important updates to the content of our Sepsis app that we would like to briefly review here. These updates have been made to the English version of the Sepsis app and will soon be made to the Spanish version in the coming...
by admin | Feb 23, 2016 | Medical, Uncategorized
An expert 19-member task force convened by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and the European Society for Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) has announced new definitions for sepsis and septic shock at the 45th annual Critical Care Congress currently taking...
by admin | Mar 18, 2014 | Medical
The long-awaited results of the Protocolized Care for Early Septic Shock (ProCESS) multicenter, randomized clinical trial were released today in the March 2014 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. ProCESS compared mortality and other outcomes in 1341 patients...
by admin | Nov 5, 2013 | Medical
We want to remind participants in the IMPRESS study that there are now fewer than 2 DAYS left until its start. IMPRESS is an observational study designed to assess the incidence and clinical patterns of septic syndromes on a single day, November 7th, in ICUs and...
