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Microbiome and Critical Illness: Impacts on Human Health

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The speaker discusses the complexities and challenges of studying the microbiome in critical illness, highlighting three key questions: whether the microbiome causes or modulates critical illness outcomes, and if it can be harnessed to modify outcomes. They emphasize the microbiome’s dynamic, heterogeneous nature, and its interactions with hosts and pathogens. Understanding these interactions is crucial due to their complexity and variability among individuals. The presentation underscores the importance of distinguishing between correlation and causation within microbiome research and suggests interventions will require genetic-level understanding and tailored approaches for effective microbiome perturbation in critical illnesses.

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One-Hour Concurrent Session | The Power of the Microbiome: Its Role in the Development, Maintenance, and Outcomes of Sepsis

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Content Type Presentation

Membership Level Professional

Membership Level Select

Year 2024

Keywords

microbiome

critical illness

host-pathogen interactions

correlation vs causation

genetic-level interventions

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