Acute kidney injury in major gynaecological surgery: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the prevalence, outcomes and cost associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) defined by consensus risk, injury, failure, loss, and end-stage kidney (RIFLE) criteria after gynaecologic surgery.

Design

Retrospective single-centre cohort study.

Setting

Academic medical centre.

Sample

Two thousand three hundred and forty-one adult women undergoing major inpatient gynaecologic surgery between January 2000 and November 2010.

Methods

AKI was defined by RIFLE criteria as an increase in serum creatinine greater than or equal to 50% from the reference creatinine. We used multivariable regression analyses to determine the association between perioperative factors, AKI, mortality and cost.

Main outcome measures

AKI, combined major adverse e

SUBMITTER: Vaught AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4334755 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature