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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Hydrocortisone is overrated in septic shock

Steroids in sepsis have come and gone and come, and now appears like it's going again. New article in NEJM.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/2/111
Posted by Stuart Forman at 3:32 PM

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