The major goal of this project is to determine whether the use of thiamine in patients with septic shock will result in attenuation of lactic acidosis and a more rapid reversal of shock.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Enrollment
88
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Lactate Level 24 Hours After the First Study Medication Dose
Time frame: 24 hours
Number of Participants With Shock Reversal
Shock reversal was defined as \> 24 hours off all vasopressors
Time frame: Hospital stay, average 2 weeks
APACHE II Score at 24 Hours
APACHE II ("Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II") is a severity-of-disease classification system; an integer score from 0 to 71 is computed based on several measurements; higher scores correspond to more severe disease and a higher risk of death
Time frame: 24 hours
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