Actively Recruiting
Early Methylene Blue in the Microhemodynamics of Septic Patients
Led by Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa em Emergencias Medicas e Terapia Intensiva · Updated on 2026-03-27
50
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
50 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
C
Centro de Estudos e Pesquisa em Emergencias Medicas e Terapia Intensiva
Lead Sponsor
I
Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericordia de Curitiba
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
The aim of the study is to evaluate the viability and feasibility of its protocol in order to conduct a larger clinical trial to assess whether methylene blue can improve patient-centered clinical outcomes such as mortality or length of hospital stay in septic shock patients.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Early Methylene Blue in the Microhemodynamics of Septic Patients
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Adult patients diagnosed with sepsis and ongoing hemodynamic dysfunction after fluid resuscitation
- Requiring increased noradrenaline dose to keep mean arterial pressure 65 mmHg
- Prolonged capillary refill time or septic shock by Sepsis-3 definition
- Diagnosis confirmed within less than 6 hours before enrollment
You will not qualify if you...
- Pregnant or breastfeeding patients
- Patients with decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment
- Patients immediately after cardiac surgery
- Patients with septic shock unlikely to survive 24 hours
- Personal or family history of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency
- Allergy to methylene blue, phenothiazines, or food dyes
- Use of linezolid within the past 14 days
- Use of serotonergic psychiatric medications within the past 2 weeks (except fluoxetine within 5 weeks)
- Use of monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) within the past 2 weeks such as rasagiline or selegiline
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
Irmandade da Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Curitiba
Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, 80010-030
Actively Recruiting
Research Team
B
Bruna Dal Vesco
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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