Abstract:Objective To investigate whether early exogenous intravenous vitamin C supplementation could improve the prognosis of sepsis patients. Methods The sepsis patients were selected from general ICU of Henan province people's hospital from June 1, 2017 to May 31, 2018. The sepsis patients were randomly divided into vitamin C group (n?=?122) and control group (n?=?112) through the design of prospective randomized controlled study. The vitamin C group based on the foundation treatment, and further was given the application of vitamin C (3?g dissolving in 100 ml 5% glucose injection) once a day in ICU treatment. The control group only used the foundation treatment and 100 ml 5% glucose injection. The case fatality rate of 28 days was analyzed by chi-test, t test or nonparametric test was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect of vitamin C on sepsis patients and further Logistic regression analysis was used to explore the influencing factors for fatality rate of 28 days. Results Compared with control group, the patients in vitamin C group have lower 28-day fatality rate (27.9% VS 42.9%, P?0.05); 72?h △SOFA score was obviously reduced [4.0 (1.0, 6.0) VS 2.0 (1.0, 4.0), P?0.05]; vascular active drug application time was shorten [25.0 (18.0, 40.0) VS 43.0 (24.0, 66.0), P?0.05]; the removal rate of calcitonin was increased [79.0% (66.0%, 85.0%) VS 60.0% (50.0%, 66.0%), P?0.05]. There was no significant difference in ICU hospitalization time between the two groups [4.00 (3.00, 8.00) vs 4.00 (3.00, 7.25), P?>?0.05]. Conclusions Early intravenous vitamin C can reduce the fatality rate of 28 days and SOFA score, shorten the time of the vascular active drug application, improve the procalcitonin clearance, and finally improve the prognosis of patients with sepsis.