The Storify overview of #NephJC 5: POSEIDON
This is an overview of the overall discussion - given the fascinating dialogue, we will follow up with another version soon.
This is an overview of the overall discussion - given the fascinating dialogue, we will follow up with another version soon.
Tejas Desai continues to step up to summarize our journal clubs.
We just finished the latest NephJC and it was awesome. We had the most people and the most tweets we have ever had in a one hour TweetChat. A big thanks to everybody that participated.
Please send your suggestions for future NephJCs to NephrologyJC@gmail.com
The wrap up post of the hyponatremia guideline discussion is posted as a comment on all three versions of the guidelines on Pubmed here.
This study dropped a couple of weeks ago and we pushed up the list to go next week on NephJC.
Look for a full introduction on the NephJC home page in the next couple of days.
Programming Note: due to the fact that I want to remain married, we will be changing the date of the next #NephJC from Tuesday to Wednesday June 25th due to my 14th wedding anniversary.
We had a great discussion tonight with Joel and Swapnil being joined by the Dean of Sodium, Dr. Richard Sterns of the University of Rochester and Dr. Hatim Hassam of the University of Chicago. Check it out.
Marco won our contest by signing up for the NephJC Newsletter. We expect nephrology efficiency in Bogota to sky rocket.
Though there are no mugs on the line, please sign up for our newsletter so you don't miss any NephJC activities.
He does a nice job editing the discussion from 270 tweets to a bare minimum 54.
We had a number topics in the discussion but one of the best ones was the discussion surrounding the recommendation against using Vaptans in hyponatremia. Here is the Storify:
A lot of new faces out there for the NephJC. We had a spirited discussion on hyponatremia. Though the live chat is over we will be monitoring the #NephJC hashtag for the next few days.
Look for more coverage of the Hyponatremia Clinical Practice Guidelines to come.
We received his tweet
We replied with some snark
But then we fixed the page on the website.
Old website implying that hyponatremia is a sodium problem...
...but any nephrologist worth his salt will tell you that hyponatremia is a water problem.
Goldfarb claims that arthropods can do science. I'll believe it when I see it.
Pubmed reference here.
and I bet every author thought they were being hip and original.
Swapnil brought our SYMPLICITY coverage to PubMed, check it out.
Last week we announced a contest to win a NephJC coffee mug
We had a surge of new people sign up for the newsletter and we have randomly selected a winner from this cohort.
Marco Anaya Taboada of Bogota Columbia has won a NephJC mug. Now I just need to figure out how to ship one to South America.
Sign up for the NephJC Newsletter by going here.
We were honored to have study author and Hypertension Demi-God, George Bakris join us to discuss the SYMPLICITY trial.
We were also joined by John Mandrola, Matt Sparks, Swapnil Hiremath and Joel Topf.