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However, the use of a physiological dose of steroid in patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock has not yet been completely evaluated.
A total of 1821 adult patients with severe sepsis were enrolled in the randomized, placebo-controlled trials supporting the approval of drotrecogin alfa (activated); 940 patients received active treatment and 881 patients received placebo.
Phase angle has been shown to be a reliable predictor of outcome in a variety of clinical conditions where alterations in cell membranes are known to occur, including sepsis [ 14 ] , trauma [ 15 ] , HIV infection [ 16 ] and cancer [ 17 ] .
However, after reviewing the literature on the use of vasopressors in patients with sepsis syndrome, Rudis and colleagues [ 13 ] found that catecholamine therapy resulting in increased hemodynamic and oxygen transport measures did not change the overall mortality, with the exception of two instances in which epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) were given alone after volume repletion.
Our study demonstrates that patients with sepsis syndrome are the most common group of patients presenting with hypotension and a low SVR in the medical intensive care unit.