Panel of experts address pediatric AKI needs in consensus statements

Since 2000, the Acute Disease Quality Initiative has met to discuss kidney disease in adults, but in 2021, Rajit K. Basu, MD, coordinated the first meeting to focus solely on pediatric AKI critical care in nephrology.
“In the past 20 years, we have seen an increasing amount of evidence that AKI occurs in one in four critically ill neonates at some point through childhood,” Basu, the division head of critical care medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, told Healio. “For the past couple of years, myself and other pediatricians attending the Acute

Since 2000, the Acute Disease Quality Initiative has met to discuss kidney disease in adults, but in 2021, Rajit K. Basu, MD, coordinated the first meeting to focus solely on pediatric AKI critical care in nephrology.
“In the past 20 years, we have seen an increasing amount of evidence that AKI occurs in one in four critically ill neonates at some point through childhood,” Basu, the division head of critical care medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital, told Healio. “For the past couple of years, myself and other pediatricians attending the Acute