Here's a summary of the two RCTs examining sodium/fluid restriction in acute HF.
1. Travers B et al. J Card Fail. 2007;13(2):128-32.
2. Aliti et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(12):1058-64.
#TWDFNR#HospMed18
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This is my father, one of my #CovidImmigrantHeroes.
In the 1970’s, he jumped a train from India to Germany to take the ECFMG.
He settled in NJ, got triple-boarded, invented a thoracentesis needle, and has cared for seniors for 40 years.
He turns 70 in Nov.
Rock on, Dad.
"power is work over time, work is a force over a distance, necessitating energy transfer, and energy is needed to break stuff – like lung tissue". @heart_lung - Newton would've been proud.
I keep being asked to review 'urgent' #COVID19 articles that identify optimal cut-points (e.g. for d-dimer levels). Time to repeat again: dichotomisation of continuous variables is biologically implausible, statistically inefficient, & against ethos of individualised prediction
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Should we use #hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) +/- azithromycin to treat #COVID19#SARSCoV2? Let’s take a look at the data.
Here’s: #HowIReadThisPaper on the only trial published to date on HCQ for COVID19 in humans:
Gautret et al: https://t.co/ezIpfNxcgy
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