500
Participants
Start Date
March 31, 2002
Primary Completion Date
November 30, 2005
Study Completion Date
November 30, 2005
hydrocortisone sodium succinate
50 mg intravenous bolus every six hours for 5 days, then tapered to 50 mg intravenously every 12 hours for days 6-8, 50 mg every 24 hours for days 9-11 and then stopped
Placebo
Hospital de St. Antonio do Capuchos, Lisbon
UCIP, Hospital de Desterro, Lisbon
Hopital de Caen, Caen
Haemek Hospital, Afula
Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv
Hadassah Medical Organisation, Jerusalem
Beilinson Medical Centre, Petah Tikva
LKH Feldkirch, Feldkirch
KH-BHS Linz, Linz
Krankenhaus der Barmherzigen Schwestern Ges. mbH, Linz
Universitaetsklinik fuer Innere Medizin II, Vienna
Hopital St. Joseph, Arlon
University Hospital Erasme, Brussels
Cliniques Universitaires St. Luc, UCL, Brussels
CHU Charleroi, Charleroi
Hopital Raymond Poincare, Paris
Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris
Hopital Huriez, Lille
Hopital Caremeau, Nîmes
Hopital Saint-Antoine, Paris
Zentralklinikum Augsburg, Augsburg
Vivantes-Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin
Vivantes-Klinikum Spandau, Berlin
Evangelisches Waldkrankenhaus Spandau, Berlin
Charité Campus Mitte, Berlin
St. Joseph Krankenhaus, Berlin
Charité - Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin
Vivantes-Klinikum Neukoelln, Berlin
Charité - Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin
Charité Campus Virchow -Klinikum, Berlin
Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin
Charité- Campus Virchow- Klinikum, Berlin
Institute for Anaesthesia and Operative Intensive Care, Darmstadt
University Hospital Dresden, Dresden
Krankenhaus Hennigsdort, Hennigsdorf
Friedrich-Schiller Universitaet, Jena
Klinikum Kemptern-Oberallegaeu, Kempten
Klinikum Landshut, Landshut
Klinikum Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim
Klinikum Grosshadern, LMU Munich, Munich
Staedtisches Krankenhaus Muenchen-Harlaching, München
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universitaet Muenchen, München
Univesitaet Erlangen-Namberg, Nuremberg
Klinikum Ernst von Bergman, Potsdam
Policlinico di Tor Vergata, Roma
Centro di Rianimazione Ospedale S.Eugenio, Roma
Renier de Graaf Hospital, Delft
Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Hospital de Egas Moniz, Lisbon
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen
Southend Hospital, Essex
Ipswich Hospital, Ipswich
Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster
The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds
Bloomsbury Institute of Intensive Care Medicine, London
University of Manchester, Hope Hospital, Salford
Southampton General Hospital, Southampton
Collaborators (1)
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
OTHER
International Sepsis Forum
OTHER
The Gorham Foundation
UNKNOWN
Hadassah Medical Organization
OTHER