• Crit Care · Oct 2018

    Comment Letter

    Evidence is stronger than you think: a meta-analysis of vitamin C use in patients with sepsis.

    • Jing Li.
    • Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, P.O. Box 689, Santa Barbara, CA, 93102, USA. jli@sbch.org.
    • Crit Care. 2018 Oct 11; 22 (1): 258.

    AbstractTwo recent publications by Sheikh and Horner and Teng et al. reviewed studies on incorporating vitamin C to treat septic patients; however, a meta-analysis was not offered in either report. This commentary extends both reviews by integrating a meta-analysis and sharing aggregated results. Pooled analyses demonstrated a marked reduction in mortality and duration of vasopressor administration in the group with the use of vitamin C.

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