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What is your approach to electrolyte repletion for patients hospitalized with cardiac and non-cardiac conditions?
For example, do you target K >4 and Mg >2?
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What is your approach to discharge planning for a patient with chronic SIADH who is admitted with asymptomatic acute-on-chronic hyponatremia?
How do you establish an acceptable baseline serum sodium? How do you decide between non-pharmacological interventions, such as fluid restriction vs th...
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Do you recommend careful correction of serum sodium to avoid osmotic demyelination syndrome in patients who are found to have isoosmolar hyponatremia in the setting of an elevated BUN level?
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Would you recommend starting tolvaptan at 7.5 mg per day, which is half the typical starting dose, to reduce the risk of overcorrection in an inpatient with SIADH and a serum sodium level of 122 mEq/L?
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How would you manage hemodialysis for an ESKD patient who presents with a phosphorus of 1.6 mg/dl and potassium of 6.5 mEq/L without ECG changes?
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What is your calcium level threshold for initiating targeted calcium lowering therapies for patients with an acute kidney injury believed secondary to renal vasoconstriction and volume depletion?
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Would you consider treating hypercalcemia with CRRT and regional citrate anticoagulation for a dialysis dependent patient who does not respond to bisphosphonate therapy and low calcium dialysate bath?
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Do you routinely use 3% sodium chloride and desmopressin to correct hypovolemic hyponatremia in an asymptomatic patient with serum sodium of less than 120 mEq/L?
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What is your preferred intravenous fluid type for matching volume loss in a patient with persistent surgical drain output and pre-renal acute kidney injury?
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What strategies do you use to prevent overcorrection of serum sodium in patients with severe hyponatremia and adrenal insufficiency when initiating glucocorticoid therapy?
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What is your daily correction goal for those patients being treated for hyponatremia?
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Do you recommend plasmapheresis for treatment of patients with osmotic demyelination?
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Do you recommend prophylactic post-operative use of an intravenous calcium infusion for patients with ESKD who undergo subtotal parathyroidectomy for secondary hyperparathyroidism?
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Do you administer calcium to patients with K > 6.5 without EKG changes?
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What is your approach to interpreting urine studies in patients hospitalized for hyponatremia who have recently received intravenous fluids containing sodium chloride?
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Do you avoid terlipressin for patients with hepatorenal syndrome who have a serum sodium level less than 125 mEq/L?
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Do you use acetazolamide to aid diuresis in patients with acute on chronic respiratory acidosis with significantly elevated serum bicarbonate levels?
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What is your daily correction goal for those patients being treated for hypernatremia?
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How often do you check urine osmolality and urine electrolytes when treating hospitalized patients with hyponatremia?
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Do you recommend checking urine sodium 2 hours after loop diuretic administration to determine the need for dose adjustment in a patient with acute decompensated heart failure?
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Do you recommend using dextrose based solutions to induce osmotic diuresis for euvolemic patients with acute kidney injury in the setting of a hemolytic condition?
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Do you use tolvaptan for management of hyponatremia related to heart failure given the side effect profile and lack of mortality benefit seen in a previous trial?
The EVEREST Outcome trial (Konstam et al., PMID 17384437)
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What is your approach to managing hypocalcemia following a parathyroidectomy in patients with end stage kidney disease?
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Papers discussed in this category

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2019-05-07
Rate of Correction of Hypernatremia and Health Outcomes in Critically Ill Patients.
Curr Opin Cell Biol, 1995 Aug
Cell volume regulated transporters of compatible osmolytes.
Kidney international, 1997 Oct
Mannitol therapy revisited (1940-1997).
American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation, 2013-04
Hypertonic saline and desmopressin: a simple strategy for safe correction of severe hyponatremia.
The New England journal of medicine, 2021 Mar 04
Terlipressin plus Albumin for the Treatment of Type 1 Hepatorenal Syndrome.
JAMA, 2012-01-11
Serum potassium levels and mortality in acute myocardial infarction.
Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2015 Aug
Dysmagnesemia in Hospitalized Patients: Prevalence and Prognostic Importance.
Circulation, 2017 Oct 03
Update to Practice Standards for Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Hospital Settings: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.
Heart rhythm, 2017 Oct 30
2017 AHA/ACC/HRS guideline for management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines and the Heart Rhythm Society.
The New England journal of medicine, 2025 Aug 29
Increasing the Potassium Level in Patients at High Risk for Ventricular Arrhythmias.
Kidney Med, 2020 Jan-Feb
Equivalent Efficacy and Decreased Rate of Overcorrection in Patients With Syndrome of Inappropriate Secretion of Antidiuretic Hormone Given Very Low-Dose Tolvaptan.
The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Oct 19
The Syndrome of Inappropriate Antidiuresis.
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2024 Sep 27
Hyponatraemia-treatment standard 2024.

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