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. 2021 Jan 21;49(4):e394–e403. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004853

TABLE 1.

Detailed Renal and Clinical Outcomes of Indexed by Osmotherapy Use

Kidney Function and Outcome Mannitol (n = 43) No Mannitol (n = 525) p HTS (n = 170) No HTS (n = 398) p
Any AKI after 2 d, n (%) 15 (35) 57 (11) < 0.001 37 (22) 35 (9) < 0.001
Absolute change in creatinine between day 3 and 5 (µmol/L), median (interquartile range) 1 (4.5–11) –2 (–7 to 3) 0.003 –1 (–6 to 5) –2 (–7 to 2) 0.005
Proportional change in creatinine between day 3 and day 5 (%), median (interquartile range) 1 (–5 to 18) –3 (–10 to 4) 0.003 –0.1 (–9 to 9) –3 (–10 to 3) 0.003
Median highest creatinine, median (interquartile range) 73 (63–97) 72 (62–84) 0.25 72 (64–89) 72 (62–83) 0.04
Days to highest Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcome stage, median (interquartile range) 6 (5–9) 7 (5–10) 0.53 7 (5–9) 7 (5–11) 0.96
Renal replacement therapy, n (%) 1 (2) 6 (1) 0.50 3 (2) 4 (1) 0.45
Lack of AKI at ICU discharge, n (%) 35 (81) 509 (97) < 0.001 157 (92) 387 (97) < 0.008
ICU LOS, median (interquartile range) 14 (8–22) 13 (8–20) 0.62 13 (9–21) 13 (6–20) 0.17
Hospital LOS, median (interquartile range) 27 (9–62) 26 (15–46) 0.96 28 (14–51) 25 (15–43) 0.38
ICU death, n (%) 12 (28) 45 (9) < 0.001 30 (18) 27 (7) < 0.001
Hospital death, n (%) 14 (33) 54 (10) < 0.001 33 (19) 35 (9) < 0.001
6-mo mortality, n (%) 14 (33) 62 (12) < 0.001 36 (21) 40 (10) < 0.001
Good outcome neurologic outcome (Glasgow Outcome Scale extended 5–8), n (%) 13 (31) 289 (56) 0.002 75 (44) 227 (58) 0.003

AKI = acute kidney injury, HTS = hypertonic saline, LOS = length of stay.

Data regarding creatinine at day 5 were missing in 59 patients on day 5 and in 23 patients on day 3.