A patient who has acute kidney injury and who weighs 90 kg had a urine output of 25 mL over the last 12 hours.The nurse would place this patient in which RIFLE category?

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According to the RIFLE criteria, a patient with acute kidney injury who has a urine output of less than 0.5 mL/kg/hour for more than 12 hours or less than 0.3 mL/kg/hour for more than 24 hours is placed in the Failure category. In this case, the patient's urine output over the last 12 hours was only 25 mL, which is significantly below the target of 810 mL (0.5 mL/kg/hour x 90 kg x 12 hours). Therefore, the patient would be placed in the Failure category.

A Patient Who Has Acute Kidney Injury and Who Weighs