Lawson Health Research Institute have identified a higher rate of mortality among Ontarians who developed acute kidney injury following a COVID-19 infection severe enough to require a say in intensive care.A new study, published this month in the Clinical Kidney Journal, examined data from the Ontario Renal Network and identified 271 people in 27 renal programs across the province who had contracted COVID-19 during the first two waves of the pandemic and subsequently developed an acute kidney injury requiring renal replacement therapy (AKI-RRT).The 271 patients had all contracted COVID-19 between March 10, 2020 and Jan.
31, 2021 and represented about 10 per cent of the 2,490 COVID-19 ICU admissions in the province during that period. All had received acute renal replacement therapy (RRT) as a result of a COVID-19.Ninety days after initiating RRT, the researchers found that 64 per of the patients identified, 174, had died, while 31 per cent remained hospitalized and 20 per cent remained RRT-dependent.
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Ninety-seven, 98 per cent of them are in ICU, and 90 per cent of them are requiring ventilators because of the damage that COVID has done to their lungs,” said Dr.