Estimating baseline creatinine values to define acute kidney injury in critically ill pediatric patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common complication in critically ill children. However, the common lack of baseline serum creatinine values affects AKI diagnosis and staging. Several approaches for estimating baseline creatinine values in those patients were evaluated.

Methods

This single-center retrospective study enrolled pediatric patients with documented serum creatinine measurements within 3 months before admission and more than two serum creatinine measurements within 7 days after admission to the pediatric intensive care unit of a tertiary care children's hospital between January 2016 and April 2020. Four different approaches for estimating AKI using serum creatinine measurements were compared: 1) back-calculation using age-adjusted normal reference glomeru

SUBMITTER: Lee YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9184846 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature