{"title":"Efficacy of Thiamine in the Treatment of Postcardiac Arrest Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study.","authors":"Suntornwit Pradita-Ukrit, Veerapong Vattanavanit","doi":"10.1155/2020/2981079","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Thiamine administration has been shown to improve survival in a postcardiac arrest animal study. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of thiamine in comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients following return of spontaneous circulation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study was conducted. Thirty-seven OHCA patients were randomly assigned to receive either thiamine 100 mg every 8 hours or a placebo. The primary outcome was 28-day all-cause mortality.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Over the course of 2 years, 37 patients were randomized to either receive thiamine (<i>n</i> = 20) or a placebo (<i>n</i> = 17). The primary outcome was not different between the groups: 10/20 (50%) in the thiamine group vs. 8/17 (47.1%) in the placebo group (<i>P</i>=0.93 by the log-rank test). There were no significant differences in secondary outcomes between the groups (good neurological outcome, lactate level, and S100B level).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>In this study, there were no significant differences in survival outcome. Further studies with a larger population are necessary to confirm these results.</p>","PeriodicalId":46583,"journal":{"name":"Critical Care Research and Practice","volume":"2020 ","pages":"2981079"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1155/2020/2981079","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Critical Care Research and Practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/2981079","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2020/1/1 0:00:00","PubModel":"eCollection","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Background: Thiamine administration has been shown to improve survival in a postcardiac arrest animal study. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of thiamine in comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients following return of spontaneous circulation.
Methods: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study was conducted. Thirty-seven OHCA patients were randomly assigned to receive either thiamine 100 mg every 8 hours or a placebo. The primary outcome was 28-day all-cause mortality.
Results: Over the course of 2 years, 37 patients were randomized to either receive thiamine (n = 20) or a placebo (n = 17). The primary outcome was not different between the groups: 10/20 (50%) in the thiamine group vs. 8/17 (47.1%) in the placebo group (P=0.93 by the log-rank test). There were no significant differences in secondary outcomes between the groups (good neurological outcome, lactate level, and S100B level).
Conclusions: In this study, there were no significant differences in survival outcome. Further studies with a larger population are necessary to confirm these results.