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NephonDemand Storifies the entire Hyponatremia discussion
He does a nice job editing the discussion from 270 tweets to a bare minimum 54.
First Storify from the Hyponatremia #NephJC
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:
NephJC #4 is a wrap. Check out the analytics and transcript
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.
When Dr. Goldfarb complains he gets results
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.
Michael Katz killing it with alternative hyponatremia flow charts
Goldfarb throws in his 2 cents on mild chronic hyponatremia
Goldfarb claims that arthropods can do science. I'll believe it when I see it.
Pubmed reference here.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Over and over again.
and I bet every author thought they were being hip and original.
SYMPLICITY HTN-3 is now up on PubMed Commons
Swapnil brought our SYMPLICITY coverage to PubMed, check it out.
And the winner is...
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.
Congratulations Marco!
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SYMPLICITY HTN-3 Google Hangout
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.
#NephJC Hangout for SYMPLICITY HTN-3
We will take to the airwaves again to do our best Matt Lauer impressions tomorrow at 9 eastern. Be there or be somewhere else. (We need a better tag line)
Nephron On Demand continues to contribute to #NephJC
Tejas Desai put together an excellent abridged Storify of the Journal club. Check it out.
Nice coverage of #NephJC Symplicity discussion
Mass device did a nice little write up of our discussion last night
Must read story about Renal Denervation in Europe
"Of course we need to reflect on and take in the key learnings from SYMPLICITY HTN-3, but why should one trial all of a sudden erase all of the other data?"
-- EuroPCR course codirector, Dr William Wijns
Wijns disclosed receiving institutional grant support from Abbott Vascular, Biosensors International, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Cordis, Medtronic, and St Jude Medical
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
-- Upton Sinclair
Great article by Shelley Wood tipped by John Mandrola
Storify of #NephJC 3 • SYMPLICITY HTN-3
All the tweets that are fit to print
#NephJC 3: Symplicity • Analytics and Transcript
Symplicity brought down the house with 20 people participating in the chat generating 268 tweets and 326,103 impressions.
A Storify summary is forthcoming.
#JAMAPedsJC: The pediatricians show us how it is done
The First NephJC Google Hangout
We are interested in finding innovative ways to share the collective wisdom of the nephrology community. The Twitter discussions have been excellent so far. Our next experiment is a Google Hangout, which is a video chat. The idea is that we will present a new journal article on alternating Tuesdays. Then on the off Tuesday we will broadcast a Google Hangout which will summarize the previous week's Twitter Chat and introduce the next week's journal club article. This will provide a tick-tock rhythm to NephJC.
We are new to Google Hangouts so we will be experimenting with various formats. For the first one we will have one of the article's authors, Vlado Perkovic join Joel Topf, Paul Phelan and Hiremath Swapnil on the Hangout. We will take audience questions during the hangout.
Each hangout will be recorded and added to commentary on the article.
Neph#JC Coffee mugs now available
It's a 15 oz (450 mL) mug because, let's face it, everyone knows that you have a coffee problem. No sense hiding it with a dainty cup. Go big. Zazzle swings NephJC a couple of bucks for every mug so we can start to pay off the hosting fees.