@kidney_boy That seems purposely dismissive. Would it be fair to make a similar graph for mortality from COVID-19, as a percentage of total infections?
@MobiusDick@kidney_boy I'm primarily referencing etiology.
A serum sodium of 120 mEq/L has very different clinical implications in beer potomania vs SIADH vs advanced liver cirrhosis.
@kidney_boy I would hate to have someone misinterpret these results as "let's correct hyponatremia faster because slow correction leads to death, and rapid correction rarely leads to ODS".
@kidney_boy All hyponatremia is not the same, of course.
Slow correction often occurs when the factor(s) causing hyponatremia are advanced, irreversible, or difficult to reverse. Think malignancy or liver cirrhosis.
@kidney_boy It only took me 10 minutes to get to Supplement 3.
I don't see the problem here.
Probably because of all the tears welling up in my eyes, obscuring my vision.
In Extreme Heat, Do You Need More Electrolytes?
"A @nytimes correction:
An earlier version of this story .... also incorrectly described having too little sodium in the blood due to lost electrolytes as hyponatremia. it occurs when the sodium in the blood is diluted by too much water, regardless of the amount of sodium in the body."
https://t.co/g70qURXV2V
@weddellite
In Extreme Heat, Do You Need More Electrolytes?
"A @nytimes correction:
An earlier version of this story .... also incorrectly described having too little sodium in the blood due to lost electrolytes as hyponatremia. it occurs when the sodium in the blood is diluted by too much water, regardless of the amount of sodium in the body."
https://t.co/g70qURXV2V
@weddellite
@NephRodby I heard you speak on acid base balance on BRCU in 2014, and I still enjoy calling the lungs "dumb little dialyzers" much to the chagrin of the ICU staff. Thank you for that memorable lecture!
@kidney_boy My critique of the KFRE was from the perspective of patients trying to understand its implications to their health and perhaps getting a kidney-centric understanding without realizing the implications to their cardiac health.