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Steroids on Steroids | DSI > RSI

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Steroids on Steroids Spoon Feed Patients with septic shock on norepinephrine who were treated with fludrocortisone and hydrocortisone had an associated reduction of in-hospital death or discharge to hospice compared to those treated with hydrocortisone alone.

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Why don't oncologists refer to palliative care?

PulmCCM

Intensivists are used to managing respiratory failure, shock, sepsis, pulmonary embolism, acute kidney injury, and hemorrhages—sometimes simultaneously. Concurrent palliative care should start promptly, and no later than 8 weeks after the diagnosis of advanced cancer (not as a final-hours transfer to hospice when death is imminent).

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