Changing epidemiology of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients with COVID-19: a prospective cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is common in critically ill patients with coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19). We aimed to explore the changes in AKI epidemiology between the first and the second COVID wave in the United Kingdom (UK).

Methods

This was an observational study of critically ill adult patients with COVID-19 in an expanded tertiary care intensive care unit (ICU) in London, UK. Baseline characteristics, organ support, COVID-19 treatments, and patient and kidney outcomes up to 90 days after discharge from hospital were compared.

Results

A total of 772 patients were included in the final analysis (68% male, mean age 56 ± 13.6). Compared with wave 1, patients in wave 2 were older, had higher body mass index and clinical frailty score, but lower baseline ser

SUBMITTER: Lumlertgul N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9794481 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature