Mark Malesker, PharmD, FCCP, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP, BCPS, professor of Pharmacy Practice and Medicine, co-published in the Critical Care Medicine Journal “Sepsis and the Obesity Paradox: Size Matters in More Than One Way.”Multiple studies have demonstrated an obesity paradox such that obese ICU patients have lower mortality and better outcomes. This study was to determine if the mortality benefit conferred by obesity is affected by baseline serum lactate and mean arterial pressure.
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