Joel Topf wrote a bit about one of the primary criticisms of the SPLIT trial at PBFluids. Take a look.
Why is normal saline acidic?
Interesting twitter sleuthing last week. Includes letter to and response from the author of the recent NEJM review of maintenance fluids. Being familiar with this will come in hand during the SPLIT chat on Tuesday and Wednesday.
#NephJC this Tuesday, Jan 12 and Wednesday, Jan 13: SPLIT trial
We are going deep on this landmark RCT of saline versus balanced solutions.
JAMA has made the article open access for NephJC. Follow this link. JAMA is also going to offer prizes for the best tweet from the Jan 12th and Jan 13th discussions so warm up those twitter clients!