Open AccessClinical profile of acute kidney injury in a pediatric intensive care unit from Southern India: A prospective observational study
Author(s) -
Sriram Krishnamurthy,
Narayanan Parameswaran,
Sivaprakasam Prabha,
Nivedita Mondal,
Subramanian Mahadevan,
Niranjan Biswal,
S. Srinivasan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of critical care medicine/indian journal of critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.317
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1998-359X
pISSN - 0972-5229
DOI - 10.4103/0972-5229.118412
Subject(s) - medicine , acute kidney injury , incidence (geometry) , pediatric intensive care unit , case fatality rate , mechanical ventilation , dialysis , etiology , intensive care unit , pneumonia , scrub typhus , intensive care medicine , prospective cohort study , pediatrics , epidemiology , pathology , physics , optics
Although the term acute renal failure was replaced by acute kidney injury (AKI) recently, there is a paucity of data on the incidence and profile of AKI in critically ill children from the developing world.