Early Prediction of Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients Admitted to Surgical ICU

Early prediction of AKI can help to improve patients' outcome through early institution of the appropriate intervention, thus the current study hypothesizes that urine analysis for certain markers may provide an early knowledge about the possibility of oncoming kidney affection secondary to organ and tissue trauma affecting patients admitted to surgical ICU. The current study tries to evaluate the value of urinary markers as early predictors of possible development of AKI in patients admitted to surgical ICU.