
The future of infectious disease immunology
The Future of Everything
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Sepsis - What's the Challenge?
Most drugs don't work across all the patients, only a subset of the patients respond. Every sepsis patient in state of California cost one day in ICU is $19,000 a day. So what we've been now focused on is identifying subgroups of patients. We call them endotypes of patients. And then the hope is in the next 10 years or so, we would change sepsis from mostly one size fits all to understanding the endotypes and treating them accordingly.
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