The study of morbidity and mortality of acute kidney injury with the diagnosis criteria of RIFLE / 中华急诊医学杂志

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Objective To evaluate the value of the RIFLE criteria of acute kidney injury (AKI) for predicting the incidence and prognosis in critically ill patients and to identify the risk factors associated with the outcomes of those patients.Methods All ICU patients admitted over three years and 6-month period were retrospectively studied at Subei People's Hospital.Based on RIFLE criteria,AKI patients were diagnosed and classified into four groupsNAKI (non-AKI),R (risk),I (injury),F (failure)groups.Results (1) AKI occurred in 404 of the 2472 patients (16.3％) during their ICU stay.The mean age of the patients was (61.4 ± 17.4) years.Infectious disease,pulmonary disease,neurological disease and trauma were the major cause of AKI.(2) Mortality in the ICU was much higher in patients with AKI than in patients without AKI (47.3％ vs.23.0％,P ＜ 0.05).The mortality rate was 35.6％ in R group,48.9％ in I group and 60.6％ in F group.(3) The logistic regression suggested that MODS and septic shock were the independent risk factors of AKI,but continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) are the independent protective factor of AKI.Conclusions In these ICU patients,AKI is associated with increased hospital mortality.The RIFLE classification is a simple and useful diagnosis tool to detect and stratify the severity of AKI and aid in predicting outcome of patients.