Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Jan 2019
Multicenter Study Observational StudyPreoperative predictive model for acute kidney injury after elective cardiac surgery: a prospective multicenter cohort study.
Predictive models of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery (CS-AKI) include emergency surgery and patients with hemodynamic instability. Our objective was to evaluate the performance of validated predictive models (Thakar and Demirjian) in elective cardiac surgery and to propose a better score in the case of poor performance. ⋯ We developed a new simple predictive model of CS-AKI in elective surgery based on available preoperative information. Our new model is easy to calculate and can be an effective tool for communicating risk to patients and guiding decision-making in the perioperative period. The study requires external validation.