Corticosteroids for sepsis didn't prevent septic shock (HYPRESS trial)
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The idea that augmenting cortisol levels to normal or supranormal levels must be somehow beneficial in septic shock has a compelling basis in physiology and intuition. For physicians, injecting powerful synthetic hormones to restore homeostasis to save a dying patient is a seductive fulfillment of the scientist-savior fantasy. So intensivists were primed to believe the results of a
Corticosteroids for sepsis didn't prevent septic shock (HYPRESS trial)
Corticosteroids for sepsis didn't prevent…
Corticosteroids for sepsis didn't prevent septic shock (HYPRESS trial)
The idea that augmenting cortisol levels to normal or supranormal levels must be somehow beneficial in septic shock has a compelling basis in physiology and intuition. For physicians, injecting powerful synthetic hormones to restore homeostasis to save a dying patient is a seductive fulfillment of the scientist-savior fantasy. So intensivists were primed to believe the results of a