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A 7-year-old male was admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) after suffering internal injuries after a motor vehicle accident. Specifically, he sustained a liver laceration, from which he hemorrhaged, requiring multiple blood transfusions. His urine output has progressively decreased over the past 4 days, and now, on hospital day 5, his urine output has been less than 5 mL/h. He remains intubated and sedated, requiring ventilator support. You have been involved with his care since hospital day 2, and you have obtained a renal ultrasound which showed normal-sized kidneys with increased echogenicity and poor corticomedullary differentiation, consistent with medical renal disease. His serum creatinine on admission was 0.7 mg/dL and has progressively increased to 4.8 mg/dL at the present time. His serum chemistries at the present time are presented below.
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Chand, D., Raina, R. (2019). Vascular Access in a Child with Acute Kidney Injury. In: Sethi, S., Raina, R., McCulloch, M., Bunchman, T. (eds) Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology and Dialysis: A Practical Handbook. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2276-1_8
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