@icmteaching@beercrit@Wilkinsonjonny@PARADicmSHIFT@cianmcdermott@iceman_ex This is interesting. I’ve previously spent time looking for this in literature. Do you have any references. I’ve always felt that oedema is bad and kidneys that can concentrate will sort the sodium out and those that can’t may need volume, but not water.
@icmteaching@beercrit@Wilkinsonjonny@PARADicmSHIFT@cianmcdermott@iceman_ex It’s this group that make me feel that most ventilated ICU hypernatraemia is not dehydration. And treating sodium overload with water seems counterintuitive. Do you think there’s another reason for the persistence of high Na in these patients?
@ActuaryByDay@ICNARC Struck by the 80% mortality if you get renal support. Also is there any way of seeing what proportion of the over 80’s got ventilated?
@CCInquisitivist@PulmCrit Really interesting, thanks! We’d started looking along the lines of frailty scoring and then applying something like this to the ‘grey zone’ group
I'm looking for a scoring system to help make decisions on escalation in covid-19. It needs to be infallible, and I need it by Monday. Many thanks in advance.
@strachanjamie A TEP team, to go round ?twice a day, with ethicist/ley/board input. An interval visit in a subset. Need a scoring system for likelihood of death, like PSI to inform part of each decision. Tell me all the answers please
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Multispecialty in situ simulation in our resus between ICM and EM.Start of many more to come. Thanks @TahirAl14@daveajholland. Abhishek,Seema,Sara,Juliana from ED and the ITU team.