Daily Urinary Sodium Excretion Monitoring in Critical Care Setting: A Simple Method for an Early Detection of Acute Kidney Injury.

Introduction: Making an early diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI) is crucial. Classical biomarkers are not capable of early detection of AKI, but novel biomarkers that do have this capability are expensive and not universally available. This prospective study attempts to mitigate these limitations through the evaluation of daily urine analysis on patient admitted to a critical care unit in order to detect early AKI.