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First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

Serum potassium (K+) levels between 3.5 and 5.0 mmol/L are considered safe for patients. The optimal serum K+ level for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) remains unclear. This retrospective study investigated the association betwe...

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Autores principales: Mao, I-Chieh, Lin, Pei-Ru, Wu, Shin-Hwar, Hsu, Hsin-Hui, Hung, Pei-Shan, Kor, Chew-Teng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123383
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author Mao, I-Chieh
Lin, Pei-Ru
Wu, Shin-Hwar
Hsu, Hsin-Hui
Hung, Pei-Shan
Kor, Chew-Teng
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Lin, Pei-Ru
Wu, Shin-Hwar
Hsu, Hsin-Hui
Hung, Pei-Shan
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description Serum potassium (K+) levels between 3.5 and 5.0 mmol/L are considered safe for patients. The optimal serum K+ level for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) remains unclear. This retrospective study investigated the association between ICU mortality and K+ levels and their variability. Patients aged >20 years with a minimum of two serum K+ levels recorded during CRRT who were admitted to the ICU in a tertiary hospital in central Taiwan between January 01, 2010, and April 30, 2021 were eligible for inclusion. Patients were categorized into different groups based on their mean K+ levels: <3.0, 3.0 to <3.5, 3.5 to <4.0, 4.0 to <4.5, 4.5 to <5.0, and ≥5.0 mmol/L; K+ variability was divided by the quartiles of the average real variation. We analyzed the association between the particular groups and in-hospital mortality by using Cox proportional hazard models. We studied 1991 CRRT patients with 9891 serum K+ values recorded within 24 h after the initiation of CRRT. A J-shaped association was observed between serum K+ levels and mortality, and the lowest mortality was observed in the patients with mean K+ levels between 3.0 and 4.0 mmol/L. The risk of in-hospital death was significantly increased in those with the highest variability (HR and 95% CI = 1.61 [1.13–2.29] for 72 h mortality; 1.39 [1.06–1.82] for 28-day mortality; 1.43 [1.11–1.83] for 90-day mortality, and 1.31 [1.03–1.65] for in-hospital mortality, respectively). Patients receiving CRRT may benefit from a lower serum K+ level and its tighter control. During CRRT, progressively increased mortality was noted in the patients with increasing K+ variability. Thus, the careful and timely correction of dyskalemia among these patients is crucial.
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spelling pubmed-92246852022-06-24 First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study Mao, I-Chieh Lin, Pei-Ru Wu, Shin-Hwar Hsu, Hsin-Hui Hung, Pei-Shan Kor, Chew-Teng J Clin Med Article Serum potassium (K+) levels between 3.5 and 5.0 mmol/L are considered safe for patients. The optimal serum K+ level for critically ill patients with acute kidney injury undergoing continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) remains unclear. This retrospective study investigated the association between ICU mortality and K+ levels and their variability. Patients aged >20 years with a minimum of two serum K+ levels recorded during CRRT who were admitted to the ICU in a tertiary hospital in central Taiwan between January 01, 2010, and April 30, 2021 were eligible for inclusion. Patients were categorized into different groups based on their mean K+ levels: <3.0, 3.0 to <3.5, 3.5 to <4.0, 4.0 to <4.5, 4.5 to <5.0, and ≥5.0 mmol/L; K+ variability was divided by the quartiles of the average real variation. We analyzed the association between the particular groups and in-hospital mortality by using Cox proportional hazard models. We studied 1991 CRRT patients with 9891 serum K+ values recorded within 24 h after the initiation of CRRT. A J-shaped association was observed between serum K+ levels and mortality, and the lowest mortality was observed in the patients with mean K+ levels between 3.0 and 4.0 mmol/L. The risk of in-hospital death was significantly increased in those with the highest variability (HR and 95% CI = 1.61 [1.13–2.29] for 72 h mortality; 1.39 [1.06–1.82] for 28-day mortality; 1.43 [1.11–1.83] for 90-day mortality, and 1.31 [1.03–1.65] for in-hospital mortality, respectively). Patients receiving CRRT may benefit from a lower serum K+ level and its tighter control. During CRRT, progressively increased mortality was noted in the patients with increasing K+ variability. Thus, the careful and timely correction of dyskalemia among these patients is crucial. MDPI 2022-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9224685/ /pubmed/35743452 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123383 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title_full First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title_fullStr First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title_full_unstemmed First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title_short First 24-Hour Potassium Concentration and Variability and Association with Mortality in Patients Requiring Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy in Intensive Care Units: A Hospital-Based Retrospective Cohort Study
title_sort first 24-hour potassium concentration and variability and association with mortality in patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy in intensive care units: a hospital-based retrospective cohort study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743452
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm11123383
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