• Tara M Neumayr, Jeff Gill, Julie C Fitzgerald, Avihu Z Gazit, Jose A Pineda, Robert A Berg, J Michael Dean, Frank W Moler, and Allan Doctor.
• 1Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 2Division of Nephrology, Hypertension, and Pheresis, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 3Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 4Department of Political Science, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 5Department of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 6Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA. 7Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO. 8Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. 9Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, CS Mott Children's Hospital, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 10Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
• Pediatr Crit Care Me. 2017 Oct 1; 18 (10): e446-e454.

ObjectivesOur goal was to identify risk factors for acute kidney injury in children surviving cardiac arrest.DesignRetrospective analysis of a public access dataset.SettingFifteen children's hospitals associated with the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network.PatientsTwo hundred ninety-six subjects between 1 day and 18 years old who experienced in-hospital or out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between July 1, 2003, and December 31, 2004.InterventionsNone.Measurements And Main ResultsOur primary outcome was development of acute kidney injury as defined by the Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria. An ordinal probit model was developed. We found six critical explanatory variables, including total number of epinephrine doses, postcardiac arrest blood pressure, arrest location, presence of a chronic lung condition, pH, and presence of an abnormal baseline creatinine. Total number of epinephrine doses received as well as rate of epinephrine dosing impacted acute kidney injury risk and severity of acute kidney injury.ConclusionsThis study is the first to identify risk factors for acute kidney injury in children after cardiac arrest. Our findings regarding the impact of epinephrine dosing are of particular interest and suggest potential for epinephrine toxicity with regard to acute kidney injury. The ability to identify and potentially modify risk factors for acute kidney injury after cardiac arrest may lead to improved morbidity and mortality in this population.

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