Abstract Background and Aims In 2020, SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had a devastating impact on individuals and on national health systems worldwide. Although being primarily a lung disease, COVID-19-associated systemic inflammation and activation of coagulation/complement cascades lead to multiple organ dysfunction including Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). Our aim is to evaluate AKI prevalence and mortality in hospitalized patients during COVID-19 pandemic in a 500-bed University Hospital. Method Observational study on 945 COVI…

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Establish a register of individuals with an AKI warning test score and to estimate a population rate of AKI warning test score and thirty-day mortality.METHODS: In June 2014 NHS England issued a patient safety alert which required biochemistry laboratories analysing serum creatinine on NHS patients to implement, by March 2015, a standard algorithm to identify individuals with potential AKI, based on the KDIGO biochemical classification of AKI.The algorithm has been externally validated [Sawh…