The Harms of Steroids

One in every 12 or 13 patients you ended up seeing an increase in hyperglyc i think the absolute difference was eight %. The harms of steroids have been overblown, specially for what we're doing in the emergency department, is just giving one dose of ofa steroid. Doctor morris: There's no huge rush to give them because they are not shown to be a time dependent treatment. He says if there had been a benefit and we were trying to figure out which one was causing the benefit, we could argue all day long but there was no benefit.