Acute skeletal muscle wasting in patients with acute kidney injury requiring continuous kidney replacement therapy: A prospective multicenter study.

Purpose: Acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring continuous kidney replacement therapy (CKRT) has been hypothesized to increase the risk of developing intensive care unit-associated weakness (ICU-AW), but prospective data are lacking.

Materials And Methods: This prospective observational study evaluated critically ill adults with AKI requiring CKRT at two U.S.

Inter-rater reliability of muscle ultrasonography performed by multidisciplinary novice sonographers in the evaluation of critically ill patients with acute kidney injury requiring continuous kidney replacement therapy.

Early diagnosis of muscle wasting in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury requiring continuous kidney replacement therapy (AKI-CKRT) may improve outcomes timely rehabilitation and nutrition. Muscle ultrasound (MUS) has recently gained traction for assessing muscle atrophy in the intensive care unit (ICU) but requires training to achieve reproducibility. We evaluated the inter-rater reliability of MUS in patients with AKI-CKRT performed by multidisciplinary raters including nephrologists.