Patient-centered outcomes in pediatric continuous kidney replacement therapy: new morbidity and worsened functional status in survivors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ongoing measures to improve pediatric continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) have lowered mortality rates, shifting the focus to survivor functional status. While septic acute kidney injury generates new morbidity in pediatric critically ill patients, acquired morbidities and functional status of CKRT population are unknown. We predicted that CKRT survivors are at risk for new morbidity and would have worse functional status at PICU discharge compared to baseline, and aimed to describe associated factors.

Methods

Retrospective cohort study over 24 months of CKRT patients surviving to PICU discharge in a quaternary children's hospital. Functional outcome was determined by Functional Status Scale (FSS).

Results

FSS scores were higher at PICU and hospita

SUBMITTER: Smith M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263014 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature