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. 2009 Nov;20(11):2441-7.
doi: 10.1681/ASN.2009040366. Epub 2009 Sep 3.

Outcomes of chronic dialysis patients admitted to the intensive care unit

Bradford Strijack  1 , Julie Mojica, Manish Sood, Paul Komenda, Joe Bueti, Martina Reslerova, Dan Roberts, Claudio Rigatto
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Outcomes of chronic dialysis patients admitted to the intensive care unit

Bradford Strijack et al. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2009 Nov.

Abstract

Admission rates and outcomes of patients who have ESRD and are admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) are not well defined. We conducted a historical cohort study using a prospective regional ICU database that captured all 11 adult ICUs in Winnipeg, Canada. Between 2000 and 2006, there were 34,965 total admissions to the ICU, 1173 (3.4%) of which were patients with ESRD. The main admission diagnoses among patients with ESRD were cardiac disease (31%), sepsis (15%), and arrest (10%). Compared with other patients in the ICU, those with ESRD were significantly younger but had more diabetes, peripheral arterial disease, and higher APACHE II (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II) scores; mean length of stay in the ICU was similar, however, between these two groups. Restricting the analysis to first admissions to the ICU, unadjusted in-hospital mortality was higher for patients with ESRD (16 versus 11%; P < 0.0001), but this difference did not persist after adjustment for baseline illness severity. In conclusion, although ESRD associates with increased mortality among patients who are admitted to the ICU, this effect is mostly a result of comorbidity.

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The graph shows rates of admission to the ICU among patients with ESRD versus the general population.
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