The Incidence and Associations of Acute Kidney Injury in Trauma Patients Admitted to Critical Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Background As more patients are surviving the initial effects of traumatic injury clinicians are faced with managing the systemic complications of severe tissue injury. Of these acute kidney injury (AKI) may be a sentinel complication contributing to adverse outcomes. Objective To establish the incidence of AKI in patients admitted to critical care after major trauma, to explore any risk factors and to evaluate the association of AKI with outcomes. Data Sources Systematic search of MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane library from January 2004 to April 2018. Study Selection Studies of adult major trauma patients admitted to critical care that applied consensus AKI criteria (RIFLE, AKIN or KDIGO) and reported clinical outcomes were assessed (PROSPERO Registration: CRD42017056781). Of the 35 full-text articles selected from the screening, 17 studies (48.6%) were included. Data Extraction and Synthesis We followed the PRISMA guidelines and study quality was assessed using the Newcastle-Ottawa score. The pooled incidence of AKI and relative risk of death were estimated using random-effects models. Main Outcomes and Measures Incidence of AKI was the primary outcome. The secondary outcome was study-defined mortality. Results We included 17 articles describing AKI outcomes in 24,267 trauma patients. The pooled incidence of AKI was 20.4% (95% CI 16.5-24.9). Twelve studies reported the breakdown of stages of AKI with 55.7% of patients classified as RIFLE-R or Stage 1, 30.3% as RIFLE-I or Stage 2 and 14.0% as RIFLE-F or Stage 3. The pooled relative risk of death with AKI compared was 3.6 (CI 2.4-5.3). In addition, there was a concordant increase in odds of death among six studies that adjusted for multiple variables (adjusted OR 1.5 [95% CI 1.3-1.8]; p=

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