Vitamin C in sepsis

Paul J Young^{1

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4}, François Lamontagne⁵, Tomoko Fujii^{6

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Affiliations

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
² Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
³ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12th Ave. N., Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada.
⁶ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Intensive Care Unit, Jikei University Hospital, 3-25-8, Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
⁸ Department of Health Promotion and Human Behaviour, School of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

Comment

Paul J Young et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Nov.

. 2022 Nov;48(11):1621-1624.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-022-06822-x. Epub 2022 Aug 12.

Paul J Young^{1

2

3

4}, François Lamontagne⁵, Tomoko Fujii^{6

7

8}

¹ Intensive Care Unit, Wellington Hospital, Wellington, New Zealand. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
² Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
³ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
⁴ Department of Critical Care, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. paul.young@ccdhb.org.nz.
⁵ Department of Medicine, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001 12th Ave. N., Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada.
⁶ Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
⁷ Intensive Care Unit, Jikei University Hospital, 3-25-8, Nishi-Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan.
⁸ Department of Health Promotion and Human Behaviour, School of Public Health, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.

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Effect of adjunctive vitamin C, glucocorticoids, and vitamin B1 on longer-term mortality in adults with sepsis or septic shock: a systematic review and a component network meta-analysis.
Fujii T, Salanti G, Belletti A, Bellomo R, Carr A, Furukawa TA, Luethi N, Luo Y, Putzu A, Sartini C, Tsujimoto Y, Udy AA, Yanase F, Young PJ. Fujii T, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2022 Jan;48(1):16-24. doi: 10.1007/s00134-021-06558-0. Epub 2021 Nov 9. Intensive Care Med. 2022. PMID: 34750650 Free PMC article.

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