Search Tag: Paul Marik

ICU Management

Vitamin-c-drug-cocktail-for-sepsis

2019 09 Jul

The combination of intravenous vitamin C, corticosteroids and thiamine has been made famous by Dr. Paul Marik, M.D. for the treatment of sepsis in critically ill patients. The ‘Marik protocol’, also termed HAT (Hydrocortisone, Ascorbic acid, Thiamine), has however come under criticism regarding the lack of evidence. Dr. Marik of Sentara Norfolk...Read more

ICU Management

Critical-care-skeptic-zoom-on-paul-marik

2016 20 Sep

Dr Marik  is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. He received his medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and was an ICU attending at Baragwanath Hospital, in Soweto, South Africa. During this time he obtained a Master...Read more