#18 Lessons from the ADRENAL trial
This week Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown get into the weeds of the ADRENAL trial - a huge study designed to answer the question - does giving steroids to patients with sepsis help or hurt? I say it hurts, Coffee is not so sure. We talk about why anti-inflammatory treatments have always failed in patients with septic shock. The lesson, it turns out, is an evolutionary one.