Conditions: Cardiac Arrest
Keywords: Cardiac Arrest, Shock, Steroids
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 50
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The major goal of this project is to determine whether the use of physiologic doses of corticosteroids will decrease time to shock reversal, alters the inflammatory cascade, and alters microcirculatory flow in post-cardiac arrest patients.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Normal Saline arm 2: Hydrocortisone 100mg every 8 hours.

Interventions: intervention 1: Normal Saline intervention 2: Hydrocortisone
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Normal Saline intervention 2: Hydrocortisone 100mg

Protocol document: