I made this video for World Kidney Day, March 8. The original cut that was posted was a bit tiresome so I dove back in to the editing room and shaved off 1:19. Better.
pseudo-pseudohyperaldosteronism
I have primary amenorrhea.
…and this guy has two of them.
ER v IM
As always, sodium at root of these battles.
I went on vacation and gave a lecture
My family took a vacation to Chicago and a friend asked if I could give an acid-base lecture. So I dropped in as an electrolyte sharpshooter and delivered my non-anion gap metabolic acidosis lecture. The revised lecture is in the usual place.
The biggest linked transplant to date
Make sure you don’t miss the Wonderful story of Chain 124 and the National Kidney Registry form Sunday’s New York Times.
She came from a land down under…
Today I had a new patient from Australia, she came in with a few years worth of laboratory results all in SI units.
I knew how to convert mmol/L of creatinine to mg/dl: divide by 88. But converting mmoles/L of urea to BUN? No idea. Converting nmol/L of vitamin D to ng/ml? Stumped.
Thank the maker for Dr. Google.
- To convert from creatinine mmol/L to mg/dL divide by 88
- To convert from mmol/l Urea to mg/dL BUN multiply by 2.8
- To convert nmol/L 25 OH Vitamin D to ng/ml divide by 2.496
- To convert mmol of creatinine to mg of creatinine (needed to interpret a 24-hour urine) multiply by the molecular weight, 113
Useful online tool: PDF2JPG
Convert PDFs to a series of JPGs with this free online tool. Cleverly called PDF2JPG.
Kidometer is creeping up on one point oh!
If you are interested in testing out the beta of Kidometer for iPhone please drop me a line. We are up to 0.6x and are recruiting a beta army. Check out the teaser page: kidometer.com.
Citrate or Heparin for CRT
As part of my other blogging job (eAJKD) I had the opportunity to interview Drs. Mei-Yi Wu and Ka-Wai Tam who performed a meta-analysis looking at anticoagulation. They examined filter life and other complications of CRT. The interview was conducted by Facebook IM, which was pretty cool and helpful with a significant language and time-zone barrier.
Check out the interview and the article.
By the way Jhaveri, Sparks and the rest of the team have been killing it at eAJKD and have really built a solid blog. Amazing how far they have come in a couple of months. Solid work.
