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*See also p. 1987. Stronger Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL (FB); Hospital cine, the European Critical Care Research Network, the
From the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Med- of the University of Munich, Institute of Clinical Chemistry, International Sepsis Forum, and the Gorham Foundation. Dr.
icine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (PEM); Munich, Germany (MV). Annane has received grant support from the French Ministry
Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program, Memorial Sloan- The American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), of Health for the prognostic value of a adrenocorticotrophic
Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (SMP); Critical Care which honors individuals for their achievements and contri- hormone test in septic shock; the French multicenter, ran-
Department, Universite de Versailes Saint-Quentin en Yve- butions to multidisciplinary critical care medicine, is the domized, controlled trial on hydrocortisone plus fludrocorti-
lines, Hospital Raymond Poincare, Garches, France (DA); consultative body of the Society of Critical Care Medi- sone in septic shock; the ongoing French multicenter 2 ⫻ 2
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University cine (SCCM) that possesses recognized expertise in factorial study that compares strict glucose control vs. con-
of Tennessee HSC, Memphis, TN (GUM); Department of the practice of critical care. The College has developed ventional treatment for steroid-treated septic shock and hy-
Anesthesiology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Cen- administrative guidelines and clinical practice parameters for
drocortisone alone vs. hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone;
ter, Jerusalem, Israel (CLS); Division of Medical Sciences, the critical care practitioner. New guidelines and practice
and a French multicenter 2 ⫻ 2 factorial trial that compares
Institute of Biomedical Research, Endocrinology & Metabo- parameters are continually developed, and current ones are
lism, The Medical School, University of Birmingham, Bir- systematically reviewed and revised. hydrocortisone plus fludrocortisone, activated protein C, the
mingham, UK (WA); Department of Anesthesiology and In- Dr. Marik has received lecture fees from Eli Lilly and combination of the two drugs, and placebos for the treatment
tensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Clinic, Humboldt Merck. Dr. Keh has received grant support from the German of septic shock. Dr. Pastores has received grant support form
University, Berlin, Germany (DK); Department of Anesthesi- Research Foundation and German Ministry of Education and Eisai Medical Research (phase 3 trial of E5564 in severe
ology, University of Munich, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Research (HYPRESS: Hydrocortisone for Prevention of Septic sepsis), and Artisan Pharma (phase 2 sepsis with dissemi-
Germany (JB); Department of Intensive Care, VU University Shock). Dr. Sprung has been a member of a data monitoring nated intravascular coagulation trial). The remaining authors
Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands (AB); Department and safety committee for Artisan Pharma, Novartis Corpora- have not disclosed any conflicts of interest with respect to
of Critical Care Medicine, Athens University, Medical School, tion, and Hutchinson Technology Incorporated. He has this article.
Athens, Greece (ID); Department of Endocrinology, Athens’ served as a consultant for AstraZeneca, Eisai Corporation, Eli For information regarding this article, E-mail:
Polyclinic, Athens, Greece (ST); Department of Medicine and Lilly, and GlaxoSmithKline. He has received grant support paul.marik@jefferson.edu
Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, University College from the European Commission, Takeda, and Eisai Corpora- Copyright © 2008 by the Society of Critical Care
London, Jules Thorn Building, Middlesex Hospital, London, tion. He has received lecture fees from Eli Lilly. Drs. Sprung, Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
UK (MS); First Department of Pediatrics, Athens University Annane, Keh, Singer, and Briegel were investigators in the
Medical School, Athens, Greece (GPC); Baxter Healthcare, CORTICUS study, which was supported by the European DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817603ba
Clintec Nutrition, Deerfield, IL (GZ); Department of Trauma, Commission, the European Society of Intensive Care Medi-
Figure 3. Meta-analysis of treatment with moderate-dose hydrocortisone on 28-day survival in patients with septic shock. RR, relative risk; 95% CI, 95%
confidence interval.
have responded poorly to fluid resusci- in study size, inclusion criteria, and cor- fludrocortisone (50 g daily) or matching
tation and vasopressor agents. ticosteroid dosing limits the interpreta- placebo for 7 days. All patients underwent
Strength of Recommendations: 2B tion of this meta-analysis. Nevertheless, an ACTH stimulation test. There was a
the French multicenter study and the re- 30% decrease in 28-day mortality in the
The benefit of moderate-dose hydro- cently completed European multicenter hydrocortisone–fludrocortisone group
cortisone (200 –300 mg/day) in patients study (CORTICUS) were better powered (hazard ratio, 0.67; 95% confidence inter-
with septic shock has been evaluated in to detect a survival difference and deserve val, 0.47– 0.95; p ⫽ .02) (95). This benefit
six randomized controlled trials (95, further analysis. Annane et al. (95) ran- was confined to the group of nonre-
100 –103, 106). A meta-analysis of these domized 300 patients with refractory sep- sponders (delta cortisol of ⬍9 g/dL).
six studies (including the recently com- tic shock (systolic blood pressure of ⬍90 The CORTICUS study was a double-
pleted CORTICUS study) demonstrates mm Hg for ⬎1 hr, despite fluid resusci- blind, randomized, placebo-controlled
greater shock reversal (at day 7) with tation and the use of vasopressor agents) study performed in 52 centers through-
hydrocortisone but no benefit in terms of to treatment with hydrocortisone (50 mg out Europe (106). A total of 500 patients
mortality (Figs. 2 and 3). The variability intravenously every 6 hrs) and oral (499 available to analyze) were enrolled
Figure 4. Effects of prolonged methylprednisolone treatment on mechanical ventilation–free days at day 28. Reproduced with permission from Meduri et
al (114). WMD, weighted mean difference; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.
Figure 5. Effects of prolonged glucocorticoid treatment initiated before day 14 of acute lung injury-acute respiratory distress syndrome on survival.
Reproduced with permission from Meduri et al (114). RR, relative risk; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval.
Grade of recommendation/ Benefits vs. Risk and burdens Methodological quality of Implications
description supporting evidence
1A: Strong recommendation, Benefits clearly outweigh risk RCTs without important limitations Strong recommendation can
high quality evidence and burdens or vise versa or overwhelming evidence from apply to most patients in most
observational studies circumstances without
reservation
1B: Strong recommendation, Benefits clearly outweigh risk RCTs with important limitations or Strong recommendation can
moderate quality evidence and burdens or vise versa exceptionally strong evidence apply to most patients in most
from observational studies circumstances without
reservation
1C: Strong recommendation, Benefits clearly outweigh risk Observational studies or case series Strong recommendation but may
low quality or very low- and burdens or vise versa change when higher quality
quality evidence evidence becomes available
2A: Weak recommendation, Benefits closely balanced with RCTs without important limitations Weak recommendation, best
high quality evidence risk and burden or overwhelming evidence from action may differ depending on
observational studies circumstances or patients or
societal values
2B: Weak recommendation, Benefits closely balanced with RCTs with important limitations or Weak recommendation, best
moderate quality evidence risk and burden exceptionally strong evidence action may differ depending on
from observational studies circumstances or patients or
societal values
2C: Weak recommendation, Uncertainty in the estimates of Observational studies or case series Very weak recommendations;
low quality or very low benefits, risks, and burdens; other alternatives may be
quality evidence benefits risk and burden equally reasonable
may be closely balanced