Journal
INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 86-96Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-010-2039-6
Keywords
Critical care; Fluid therapy; Sepsis; Mortality; Multicenter randomized clinical trial
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- Auckland District Health Board, New Zealand
- Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
- CSL Limited, Melbourne, Victoria
- Middlemore Hospital, New Zealand
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council
- Health Department of Western Australia
- Health Research Council of New Zealand
- New South Wales Health Department
- Northern Territory Health Services
- Queensland Health Services Department
- Royal Hobart Hospital, Tasmania
- South Australian Department of Human Services
- Victorian Department of Human Services
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To determine the effect of random assignment to fluid resuscitation with albumin or saline on organ function and mortality in patients with severe sepsis. Pre-defined subgroup analysis of a randomized controlled trial conducted in the intensive care units of 16 hospitals in Australia and New Zealand. Of 1,218 patients with severe sepsis at baseline, 603 and 615 were assigned to receive albumin and saline, respectively. The two groups had similar baseline characteristics. During the first 7 days mean arterial pressure was similar in the two groups, but patients assigned albumin had a lower heart rate on days 1 and 3 (p = 0.002 and p = 0.03, respectively) and a higher central venous pressure on days 1-3 (p < 0.005 each day). There was no difference in the renal or total Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score of the two groups; 113/603 (18.7%) of patients assigned albumin were treated with renal replacement therapy compared to 112/615 (18.2%) assigned saline (p = 0.98). The unadjusted relative risk of death for albumin versus saline was 0.87 [95% confidence interval (CI) 0.74-1.02] for patients with severe sepsis and 1.05 (0.94-1.17) for patients without severe sepsis (p = 0.06 for heterogeneity). From multivariate logistic regression analysis adjusting for baseline factors in patients with complete baseline data (919/1,218, 75.5%), the adjusted odds ratio for death for albumin versus saline was 0.71 (95% CI: 0.52-0.97; p = 0.03). Administration of albumin compared to saline did not impair renal or other organ function and may have decreased the risk of death.
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