Prevalence and factors associated with acute kidney injury in patients in intensive care units

• Autor(a) principal: Santana,Karla Yasmim de Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Santos,Ana Paula Aragão, Magalhães,Fernanda Barbosa, Oliveira,Jussiely Cunha, Pinheiro,Fernanda Gomes de Magalhães Soares, Santos,Eduesley Santana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672021000200180
• topic: Acute Kidney Injury; Intensive Care Unit; Critical Care; Mortality; Prevalence

ABSTRACT Objectives: to identify the prevalence and factors associated with the development of acute kidney injury in critically ill patients. Methods: a cross-sectional study, conducted from June 2018 to August 2019. The Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes was used to classify acute kidney injury. A significant value was set at p<0.05. Results: a total of 212 patients were included, of whom 35.8% evolved into an acute kidney injury. Patients with acute kidney injury had hypertension, higher levels on severity scores and a higher baseline creatinine rate> 1.5 mg/dL, also, when applied logistic regression, were 7 times more likely to develop acute kidney injury, Odds Ratio 7.018. More than half (56.6%) of the patients with acute kidney injury died. Moreover, 26.7% of these patients developed pressure sore. Conclusions: the prevalence of kidney injury was high (35.8%). The patients who developed it had a higher severity, mortality, and pressure sore index.