Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Preoperative Parenteral Thiamine Supplementation in Patients Undergoing Heart Surgery - a Pilot Study
Brief Summary: The objective of this study is to determine whether preoperative parenteral thiamin supplementation does prevent the intra and early postoperative increase of lactate and whether this effect is related to the extent of thiamine deficiency in patients undergoing heart surgery. In addition the prevalence of major thiamin deficiency in patient undergoing heart surgery will be determined.