The results of sepsis are deadly, causing blood pressure to tank, organs to fail and breathing to crash, but Dr. Paul Marik has made a simple discovery that could change the world.
In fact, sepsis kills more people in the hospital than any other disease.
Dr. Marik treats all of his sepsis patients with a vitamin C infusion. So far, he’s treated about 150 patients, and only one has died of sepsis.
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The patient was dying.
Valerie Hobbs, 53, was in the throes of sepsis – an infection coursing through her veins that was causing her blood pressure to tank, her organs to fail and her breathing to flag.
“When you have a person that young who’s going to die, you start thinking, ‘What else can we pull out of the bag?’ ” said Dr.