Identifying Risk for Acute Kidney Injury in Infants and Children Following Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our goal was to identify risk factors for acute kidney injury in children surviving cardiac arrest.

Design

Retrospective analysis of a public access dataset.

Setting

Fifteen children's hospitals associated with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.

Patients

Two hundred ninety-six subjects between 1 day and 18 years old who experienced in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between July 1, 2003, and December 31, 2004.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Our primary outcome was development of acute kidney injury as defined by the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria. An ordinal probit model was developed. We found six critical explanatory variables, including total number of epinephrine doses, postcar

SUBMITTER: Neumayr TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628129 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature