Objective Among critically ill patients with acute kidney injury, exposure to positive fluid balance (FB), compared with negative FB, has been associated with mortality and impaired renal recovery. However, its unclear whether positive and negative FB are associated with poor outcome compared to patients with even fluid balance (euvolemia). In this study, we examined the association between exposure to positive or negative FB, compared with even FB, on one-year mortality and renal recovery. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Eight medical-surgical ICUs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Patients Critically ill patients admitted between July 2000 through October 2008. Interventions None Measurements & Main Results Among 18,084 patients, FB was categorized as negative (<0%); even (0 % – < 5%); or positive (≥5%). Following propensity matching, positive FB, compared with even or negative FB, was associated with increased mortality (30.3% vs. 21.1% vs. 22%, respectively, P<0.001). Using Gray’s model, negative compared with even FB, was associated with lower short-term mortality (adjusted hazard ratio range [AHR], 0.81, 95%CI, 0.68–0.96) but higher long-term mortality (AHR range, 1.16–1.22, P=0.004). Conversely, positive FB, was associated with higher mortality throughout one-year (AHR range, 1.30–1.92, P<0.001), which was attenuated in those who received RRT (Positive FB*RRT interaction AHR range, 0.43–0.89, P<0.001). Of patients receiving RRT, neither positive (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 95% CI, 0.98, 0.68–1.4) nor negative (AOR, 0.81, 95% CI, 0.43–1.55) FB was associated with renal recovery. Conclusions Among critically ill patients, exposure to positive or negative FB, compared with even FB, was associated with higher one-year mortality. This mortality risk associated with positive FB, however, was attenuated by use of RRT. We found no association between FB and renal recovery.

BackgroundAlthough net ultrafiltration (UFNET) is frequently used for treatment of fluid overload in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury, the optimal intensity of UFNET is unclear. Among critically ill patients with fluid overload receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT), we examined the association between UFNET intensity and risk-adjusted 1-year mortality.MethodsWe selected patients with fluid overload ≥ 5% of body weight prior to initiation of RRT from a large academic medical center ICU dataset. UFNET intensity was calculated as the net volume of fluid ultrafiltered per day from initiation of either continuous or intermittent RRT until the end of ICU stay adjusted for patient hospital admission body weight. We stratified UFNET as low (≤ 20 ml/kg/day), moderate (> 20 to ≤ 25 ml/kg/day) or high (> 25 ml/kg/day) intensity. We adjusted for age, sex, body mass index, race, surgery, baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate, oliguria, first RRT modality, pre-RRT fluid balance, duration of RRT, time to RRT initiation from ICU admission, APACHE III score, mechanical ventilation use, suspected sepsis, mean arterial pressure on day 1 of RRT, cumulative fluid balance during RRT and cumulative vasopressor dose during RRT. We fitted logistic regression for 1-year mortality, Gray’s survival model and propensity matching to account for indication bias.ResultsOf 1075 patients, the distribution of high, moderate and low-intensity UFNET groups was 40.4%, 15.2% and 44.2% and 1-year mortality was 59.4% vs 60.2% vs 69.7%, respectively (p = 0.003). Using logistic regression, high-intensity compared with low-intensity UFNET was associated with lower mortality (adjusted odds ratio 0.61, 95% CI 0.41–0.93, p = 0.02). Using Gray’s model, high UFNET was associated with decreased mortality up to 39 days after ICU admission (adjusted hazard ratio range 0.50–0.73). After combining low and moderate-intensity UFNET groups (n = 258) and propensity matching with the high-intensity group (n = 258), UFNET intensity > 25 ml/kg/day compared with ≤ 25 ml/kg/day was associated with lower mortality (57% vs 67.8%, p = 0.01). Findings were robust to several sensitivity analyses.ConclusionsAmong critically ill patients with ≥ 5% fluid overload and receiving RRT, UFNET intensity > 25 ml/kg/day compared with ≤ 20 ml/kg/day was associated with lower 1-year risk-adjusted mortality. Whether tolerating intensive UFNET is just a marker for recovery or a mediator requires further research.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s13054-018-2163-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses 30-day readmission rates to measure quality of care and guide pay-for-performance. The CMS tracks readmissions following index hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumonia because hospitalizations for these conditions are frequent and account for a large proportion of readmissions. 1 The proportion and cost of unplanned readmissions following sepsis hospitalizations are not known. We hypothesized that sepsis hospitalizations account for a higher proportion of unplanned 30-day readmissions than hospitalizations for AMI, heart failure, COPD, and pneumonia in the United States.

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