Near-Infrared-Based Cerebral Oximetry for Prediction of Severe Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children After Cardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Cerebral oximetry by near-infrared spectroscopy is used frequently in critically ill children but guidelines on its use for decision making in the PICU are lacking. We investigated cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy oximetry in its ability to predict severe acute kidney injury after pediatric cardiac surgery and assessed its additional predictive value to routinely collected data.

Design

Prospective observational study. The cerebral oximeter was blinded to clinicians.

Setting

Twelve-bed tertiary PICU, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium, between October 2012 and November 2015.

Patients

Critically ill children with congenital heart disease, younger than 12 years old, were monitored with cerebral near-infrared spectroscopy oximetry from PICU admission until they were s

SUBMITTER: Flechet M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063924 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature