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Doctor develops possible cure for sepsis
NORFOLK, VA (WAVY) — A possible medical breakthrough could save millions of lives.
A critical care doctor at Eastern Virginia Medical School believes he has found the cure for sepsis, a common infection that gets into the blood and kills hundreds of people a day in the U.S. alone.
“It’s indeed cool I think, because nobody is going to make any money off of this, hopefully, and it has the potential to save millions of lives, which I think is the coolest thing,” Dr. Paul Marik told WAVY.com
His discovery came by chance, he said, when a deathly ill patient came into Sentara Norfolk General’s intensive care unit last January.
“I just knew she was going to die and you know, when you have a situation, you attempt to think out of the box,” he said.
Dr. Marik determined to attempt a combination of Vitamin C and the steroid, hydrocortisone.
“We gave it to her not expecting anything to happen and I went home expecting she would pass away.”
But when Dr. Marik returned the next morning, he found a woman well on her way to recovery.
“And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, what just happened there ?!” Dr. Marik said.
The staff couldn’t believe it, so they attempted it again and again — with the same results. They added a third element, thiamine, to the IV treatment as well. Today, they have used the treatment on about one hundred fifty patients and they say the result is the same.
A researcher at Old Dominion University, John Catravas, PhD., told WAVY.com he did an independent lab investigate that confirms the treatment’s effectiveness.
Dr. Marik admits more studies must be done to validate the findings, but to those naysayers, he has this to say: “You truly have nothing to lose. It’s exceedingly safe, so people maybe who are skeptics… There’s no side effects.”
Dr. Marik says witnessing is believing and he is eyeing more lives saved every day.