Mangal Charan Murmu
SCB Medical College, India
Title: Use of dialysis in acute kidney injury in pediatrics
Biography
Biography: Mangal Charan Murmu
Abstract
Aim: To study the use of Dialysis in Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) in different clinical conditions in pediatric practice in a tertiary care hospital.
Method: It’s a direct prospective study done in the Paediatric Department of SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India. The child admitted with a clinical feature of AKI was taken into study. Total numbers of cases taken in the study from January 2015 to December 2017 were 48. AKI due to severe malaria (n=18), septicaemia (n=14), vasculotoxic snake bite (n=8), severe dehydration (n=6), complicated urinary tract infection (n=2) were included. The data obtained were analyzed and statistically validated.
Results: Prerenal was the most common cause of AKI needing dialysis.
Conclusion: The dialysis done in the early phase of clinical condition reduces the mortality due to ARF.