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Here, we investigated the effect of SB infusion in patients with AKI complicated by metabolic acidosis.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Method<\/jats:title><jats:p>Patients with AKI complicated by metabolic acidosis were screened from the MIMIC-IV database. A propensity score analysis (PSA) was used to decrease baseline differences in the probability of receiving SB. The marginal structural Cox model (MSCM) was employed to adjust for both baseline and time-varying confounding factors.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 1853 patients with AKI complicated with metabolic acidosis were included in our study. A total of 390 pairs of patients were divided into an SB infusion group and a non-SB infusion group. The SB infusion group had more serious and worse laboratory indicators, including lower pH [7.19 (0.11) vs. 7.26 (0.07)] and bicarbonate concentration (BC) [12.36 (4.26) vs. 15.96 (3.25) mmol\/l]. While there was no significant effect on overall hospital mortality in AKI patients complicated with metabolic acidosis (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.056), SB infusion was observed to have beneficial correlation on hospital mortality in patients with high AG acidosis (AG\u2009&amp;gt;\u200918\u2009mmol\/L) (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.012). Similar results were replicated with the MSCM.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>We found that SB infusion in AKI patients with metabolic acidosis is not beneficial for hospital mortality. However, SB infusion for AKI patients and high AG metabolic acidosis significantly improved hospital mortality. 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