The Incidence of Acute Kidney Injury and Its Effect on Neonatal and Pediatric Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Outcomes: A Multicenter Report From the Kidney Intervention During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Study Group.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In a population of neonatal and pediatric patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; to describe the prevalence and timing of acute kidney injury utilizing a consensus acute kidney injury definition and investigate the association of acute kidney injury with outcomes (length of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and mortality).

Design

Multicenter retrospective observational cohort study.

Setting

Six pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation centers.

Patients

Pediatric patients (age, < 18 yr) on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation at six centers during a period of January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2011.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Complete data were analyzed for 832 patients on extracorporeal membrane oxyge

SUBMITTER: Fleming GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5138084 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature