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1a) Welcome to one of our favorite events on the @academiccme #accredited #tweetorial feeds: a takeover of our programming from @GoggleDocs! The focus of this tweetorial is data from #ADA2022 on #SGLT2i beyond cardiac disease. Our expert author is @GoggleDocs' @drpatrickholmes. Image
1b) Check out our other #ADA2022 recap #tweetorial by new @GoggleDocs family member @Ines_VFonseca who focused on the cardiac data presented: ckd-ce.com/dkd13_ada22a/
2) This program is #accredited for CE/#CME #physicians #physicianassociates #nurses #pharmacists #nursepractitioners & is supported by an educational grant from the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc and Eli Lilly Company. It is intended for healthcare professionals.
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1) Welcome to a new #accredited #tweetorial on Cardiorenal Disease in T2D & the Impact of Blocking the MR in Patients w/DKD, another CE/#CME program by one of the @GoggleDocs, this time our friend @AmarPut, Diabetes & Endocrine Consultant in the West Midlands 🇬🇧. #CaReMe #FOAMed Image
2) This program is supported by an educational grant from Bayer & is intended for #healthcare providers. Author disclosures can be found at ckd-ce.com/disclosures/. Prior programs, still available for CE/#CME credit, are at ckd-ce.com. CE/#CME credit 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸
3) So first – the ‘triple threat’ . . . We know of the link between the 🫀 and the kidneys and the ‘#cardiorenal’ syndrome, but what about in the setting of #diabetes?
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1) Welcome to a new #accredited #tweetorial on currently available treatments for mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonism (#MRA), the differences among them, and how these differences impact on treatment of cardio-reno-metabolic diseases #CaReMe #FOAMed
2) Our expert author is Dr. Patrick Holmes MB BS, MSc, DipTher, MRCGP (@drpatrickholmes), a GP Partner at St. George’s Medical Practice, Darlington for 23 years. He is a Trustee for the Primary Care Diabetes Society and is Associate Editor for Diabetic Medicine @diabeticmed.
3) This program is supported by an educational grant from Bayer & is intended for #healthcare providers. Author disclosures can be found at ckd-ce.com/disclosures/. Prior programs, still available for CE/#CME credit, are at ckd-ce.com. CE/#CME credit 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Hyperkalaemia treatment

KDIGO have just published their conference conclusions on managing acute #hyperkalaemia so I run through some learning points, some criticisms and the bits I’m not sure about as a renal reg.

#medtwitter #nephpearls #meded
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Before we start - why do we care?

Because hyperkalaemia associates with a large increase in risk of death in the next 24 hours.

☠️ mortality not necessarily caused by the hyperkalaemia itself, but can indicate that something bad is happening

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19546…
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So, the KDIGO conference paper.

Firstly, no one can even agree on the definition of hyperK. What’s up with the Swiss? 4.5mmol/l as the upper limit of normal? Compare this with some values used in research papers.....!
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