Sepsis: frontiers in diagnosis, resuscitation and antibiotic therapy

A Perner, AC Gordon, D De Backer, G Dimopoulos… - Intensive care …, 2016 - Springer
Sepsis is a major growing global burden and a major challenge to intensive care clinicians,
researchers, guideline committee members and policy makers, because of its high and …

Use of methylene blue in sepsis: a systematic review

ESH Kwok, D Howes - Journal of intensive care medicine, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
A systematic review of the literature was conducted to determine if the administration of
methylene blue in humans improves hemodynamic status and/or outcome in patients with …

Early adjunctive methylene blue in patients with septic shock: a randomized controlled trial

M Ibarra-Estrada, E Kattan, P Aguilera-González… - Critical Care, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Methylene blue (MB) has been tested as a rescue therapy for patients with
refractory septic shock. However, there is a lack of evidence on MB as an adjuvant therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Nitric oxide in shock

A Cauwels - Kidney international, 2007 - Elsevier
Refractory hypotension with end-organ hypoperfusion and failure is an ominous feature of
shock. Distributive shock is caused by severe infections (septic shock) or severe systemic …

Vasoplegia in patients with sepsis and septic shock: pathways and mechanisms

AM Burgdorff, M Bucher… - Journal of International …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Sepsis is one of the most frequent causes of death among patients in intensive care units.
Many therapeutic strategies have been assessed without the desired success rates. A key …

Methylene blue: magic bullet for vasoplegia?

L Hosseinian, M Weiner, MA Levin… - Anesthesia & …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Methylene blue (MB) has received much attention in the perioperative and critical care
literature because of its ability to antagonize the profound vasodilation seen in distributive …

Methylene blue for distributive shock: a potential new use of an old antidote

DH Jang, LS Nelson, RS Hoffman - Journal of Medical Toxicology, 2013 - Springer
Methylene blue is used primarily in the treatment of patients with methemoglobinemia. Most
recently, methylene blue has been used as a treatment for refractory distributive shock from …

Efficacy and safety of methylene blue in patients with vasodilatory shock: A systematic review and meta-analysis

CC Zhao, YJ Zhai, ZJ Hu, Y Huo, ZQ Li… - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background The role of methylene blue (MB) in patients with vasodilatory shock is unclear.
The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to evaluate the efficacy and …

A review of methylene blue treatment for cardiovascular collapse

JCY Lo, MA Darracq, RF Clark - The Journal of emergency medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Historically, methylene blue (MB) has been used for multiple purposes,
including as an antidote for toxin-induced and hereditary methemoglobinemia, ifosfamide …

High absolute bioavailability of methylene blue given as an aqueous oral formulation

I Walter-Sack, J Rengelshausen, H Oberwittler… - European journal of …, 2009 - Springer
Purpose Methylene blue (MB) has recently been reevaluated for malaria treatment. With the
aim of excluding treatment failures due to low bioavailability, we have investigated the …