I posted this tweetorial to Twitter last month and I want to bookmark it here.
A couple of new Tweetorials
The first was in response to Robert Centor’s excellent description of how he uses reciprocal creatinine. Honestly I had not thought about reciprocal creatinine in a long time. It was fun diving into some of the literature around it. Here is the tweetorial:
Today I did a second tweetorial on hyperosmotic hyponatremia
Here I had some technical problems. I wrote the entire tweetorial using chained tweets in Safari on MacOS. When I went to upload all tweets, Twitter hung and failed to upload more than the first 8. I had to then go through and re-post the remainder of the tweetorial. I was frustrated and failed to attach two of the animated gifs I made. I added them as additional tweets but they break the flow. Tweetorials are like writing email newsletters, once you publish the tweets (or hit send on the newsletter) there is no opportunity for editing.
My first Tweetorial: When salt tablets work in hyponatremia (and when they do not)
I recently saw a patient with hyponatremia and cirrhosis. He had been started on salt tablets to try to correct the hyponatremia. In a limited number of diagnosis salt tablets can help hyponatremia. Cirrhosis is not one of them. I created this Tweetorial to teach some basic hyponatremia physiology and clear up when they may work and when they will not.
I’m going to throw my hat in the Tweetorial ring.
Sometimes salt tablets work for hyponatremia and sometimes they don’t. How can you figure out when to use them and when not to?
— Joel M. Topf, MD FACP (@kidney_boy) July 9, 2018
This is my first shot at a Tweetorial. I wrote out the tweets in Apple Notes. I think I will use a spreadsheet with a character counter next time. Too many of my Tweet-length thoughts ended up being a bit too wordy. Having a counter during creation would help.
I also should have more links and pics.
Additionally, I bought the domain Tweetorial.org. Any ideas what I should use it for?