Risk Factors of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children.

Objectives: Acute kidney injury may be promoted by critical illness, preexisting medical conditions, and treatments received both before and during ICU admission. We aimed to estimate the frequency of acute kidney injury during ICU treatment and to determine factors, occurring both before and during the ICU stay, associated with the development of acute kidney injury. Design: Cohort study of critically ill children. Setting: University-affiliated PICU. Patients: Eligible patients were admitted to the ICU between January 2006 and June 2009. We excluded those admitted with known primary renal failure, chronic renal failure or postrenal transplant, conditions with known renal complications, or metabolic conditions treated with dialysis. Patients were also excluded if they had a short ICU stay (

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