NCT00676585

Corticosteroid Therapy in Refractory Shock Following Cardiac Arrest

Corticosteroids Therapy in Refractory Shock Following Cardiac Arrest

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The major goal of this project is to determine whether the use of physiologic doses of corticosteroids will decrease time to shock reversal, alters the inflammatory cascade, and alters microcirculatory flow in post-cardiac arrest patients.

Conditions

• Cardiac Arrest

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Normal Saline	Normal Saline
DRUG	Hydrocortisone	Hydrocortisone 100mg

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-10-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-04-01
• First posted: 2008-05-13
• Last updated: 2017-05-17
• Results posted: 2017-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States