The recent EUPHAS trial was stopped early because of reduced mortality in patients with sepsis treated with polymyxin B hemoperfusion. So should we rush to offer this technique to all patients with sepsis? Not quite so fast.
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Vincent, JL. Clearing the blood in sepsis. Nat Rev Nephrol 5, 559–560 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrneph.2009.146
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