Acute Kidney Injury in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Patients: National Analysis of Impact of Age
AKI is common and is increasing among patients on ECMO support. Patients on ECMO have high mortality and AKI is an independent predictor of mortality. Though age is also an independent predictor of mortality in patients on ECMO, it is neither a predictor of AKI nor does not modify the relationship between AKI and mortality.
