Abstract:Background: The prevalence of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) varies, ranging from 3% to 20% of hospitalized patients and 25% to 67% of ICU patients, with 5% to 6% of the ICU population requiring renal replacement therapy following AKI. Establishing the diagnosis of AKI with KDIGO criteria using serum creatinine marker. Serum creatinine has a sensitivity of 52.9% and a specificity of 85.7% for AKI. The Sensitivity and specisifity of serum creatinine is not good because it can increase without any real injury or do n… Show more
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