Incidence of and factors associated with acute kidney injury after scoliosis surgery in pediatric patients

We sought to identify the national incidence of acute kidney injury (AKI) associated with pediatric posterior spinal fusion (PSF) surgery for scoliosis, and to determine factors that increase risk. The 1998–2014 National Inpatient Sample (NIS), a large United States hospital discharge database, was queried for discharges aged 0–17 years with International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes for...