Acute Kidney Injury After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery: A Secondary Analysis of the Safe Pediatric Euglycemia After Cardiac Surgery Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To understand the effect of tight glycemic control on cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury.

Design

Secondary analysis of data from the Safe Pediatric Euglycemia after Cardiac Surgery trial of tight glycemic control versus standard care.

Setting

Pediatric cardiac ICUs at University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, and Boston Children's Hospital.

Patients

Children 0-36 months old undergoing congenital cardiac surgery.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury was assigned using the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria with the modification that a greater than 0.1 mg/dL increase in serum creatinine was required to assign cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney inju

SUBMITTER: Blinder JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5503840 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature