Initial Resuscitation for Acute Kidney Injury in Patients With Cirrhosis: A Pilot Randomized Trial Using a Volume Assessment Guidance Algorithm
The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate two strategies for how to provide intravenous (IV) fluids for treating patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in cirrhosis. The main question it aims to answer is: what is the safety, efficacy, and feasibility of providing a recommendation to use a Volume Assessment Guidance Algorithm (VAGA) or give standard of care doses of IV albumin? Patients will be randomly assigned where their treating teams will receive a VAGA-based recommendation or a standard of care IV albumin recommendation.
• Adult age 18 years or greater
• Signed informed consent form (ICF) by any subject capable of giving consent, or, when the subject is not capable of giving consent, by their legally authorized representatives prior to initiation of any study procedures.
• Admitted to the hospital
• Diagnosis of decompensated cirrhosis (either prior to admission or new diagnosis on admission).
• Presence of acute kidney injury (AKI) as defined by International Club of Ascites (ICA) criteria, defined as SCr increase of ≥0.3 mg/dL within 48 hours or ≥50% increase from baseline which is known or presumed to have occurred within the prior 7 days.