
Dogma in Critical Care
Critical Matters
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Hypothermia Postcardic Arrest
Mervyn, I think two things come to mind immediately as you're sharing this. As soon as we hear sepsis, we anchor ourselves in that diagnosis and we become much more narrow in our way of thinking of alternative possibilities. Yet when you look at the evolving studies, the better studies and the bigger studies say it doesn't make a difference, yet some people cannot let go. What are your thoughts on this? It seems that there's dogma that persists despite evidence being available that should make us think very differently. And one that comes to mind immediately is hypothermia postcardic arrest.
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