• Erin Hittesdorf, Oliver Panzer, David Wang, Jacob S Stevens, Jonathan Hastie, Desmond A Jordan, Nina Yoh, Katherine A Eiseman, Katerina Elisman, and Gebhard Wagener.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University, P&S Box 46 (PH-5) 630 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032-3784, USA.
• J Crit Care. 2021 Apr 1; 62: 172175172-175.

AbstractCOVID-19 has created an enormous health crisis and this spring New York City had a severe outbreak that pushed health and critical care resources to the limit. A lack of adequate space for mechanically ventilated patients induced our hospital to convert operating rooms into critical care areas (OR-ICU). A large number of COVID-19 will develop acute kidney injury that requires renal replacement therapy (RRT). We included 116 patients with COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation and were cared for in our OR-ICU. At 90 days and at discharge 35 patients died (30.2%). RRT was required by 45 of the 116 patients (38.8%) and 18 of these 45 patients (40%) compared to 17 with no RRT (23.9%, ns) died during hospitalization and after 90 days. Only two of the 27 patients who required RRT and survived required RRT at discharge and 90 days. When defining renal recovery as a discharge serum creatinine within 150% of baseline, 68 of 78 survivors showed renal recovery (87.2%). Survival was similar to previous reports of patients with severe COVID-19 for patients cared for in provisional ICUs compared to standard ICUs. Most patients with severe COVID-19 and AKI are likely to recover full renal function.Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Inc.

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