Joscha von Rappard
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Joscha von Rappard
@jovora.bsky.social
60% Internal Medicine 40% Nephrology 100% POCUS
I guess you are being sarcastic….Unfortunately it’s not a question of routine vaccination but a question of leading people away from false propaganda….i have absolutely no idea how we could achieve that.
February 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
You are right. I understand you now.
January 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I would say it makes a big difference. If your buffer capacity is spend you are turning instantly from being not good but alive into being dead…..
January 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
You haven’t calculated in the produced methane gas in your bowels 😉
January 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
„Rule out“ is seldom true in medicine but in my experience a high urine creatinine/high osmolarity and a urine sodium <20 seldom comes with a severe ATN.
January 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The next thing will be GLP-1 users are more likely to win the lottery…
January 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
And if you measure bicarb and ends up with a discrepancy…you still don’t know which value you should trust more. So in general I do trust the calculation and wouldn’t make a big fuzz about that the value is „just calculated“
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It’s probably more an academically question and I don’t want to be too nerdy, but…the calculated bicarb is not en estimation it is a calculation based on the physiological principles of our acid base handling….maybe @kidneyboy.bsky.social can wade in to give us steering…
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Wow, never thought about that. Thanks a lot!
January 6, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I can look it up if you want, but I think it was a young patient with a diabetic keto acidosis and obviously well functioning lungs…
January 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Interesting, so what was your theory why his values were so deranged? It’s hard to imagine a patient with values like this after a normal dialysis session.
January 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Beware of the units…I live in a kPa region….pCO2 of 1 is not that seldom either.
January 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This patient must have a recirculation value from hell in his dialysis access. Fistula or catheter?
January 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you believe in Henderson Hasselbalch…I can’t think of a Szenario where the values can have a discrepancy. Please explain!
January 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I can trump that…not that seldom I am afraid.
January 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Right you are. Let’s call it Vitamin D‘ont
December 23, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Reposted by Joscha von Rappard
discussion of it and an online calculator:

emcrit.org/squirt/vanco/

the clearance of vanc is proportional to the GFR as discussed here:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I'll build a formula embed to calculate GFR from two vanc levels into the IBCC when I get a chance

we should do this more
Vancomycin PK project: Nuts & Bolts guide
Emerging evidence shows the benefits of using pharmacokinetics to adjust vancomycin dosing.  What follows is a guide about how to do it.  I will keep this up-to-date, so please let me know if you find...
emcrit.org
December 16, 2024 at 4:46 PM
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December 18, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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December 17, 2024 at 9:03 PM
You are right. It’s not that everyone is throwing jokes around. If you work several years with the same group of people you get a sense who might be humorwise on the same page and who is not (not judging). So at my shop it’s more a group of friends making fun of each other.
December 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
I think you are right, there is certainly a substantial toxicity potential. Partly because I was always privileged (or lacking the sensors to feel humiliated) or because I was surrounded by real good people, I never experienced the dark side of the institutionalised hospital banter.
December 12, 2024 at 5:05 PM
I think that’s true statement and I probably or certainly underestimate the privilege being born with my skin colour. To my defence I might add that it is very easy to forget because diversity in skin colour is nearly non-existent in my part of the world….
December 12, 2024 at 3:54 PM
The way my colleagues and me are making fun of each other has nothing to do with insulting, because there is no intention to harm the other person. But I understand you. It is always difficult when the “ toxicity” depends on the people involved.
December 12, 2024 at 3:48 PM
I think you’re right, actually. My thinking about privilege was coined in a way that I always felt privileged to be in that profession, to get the exceptional training I got and I felt privileged to be in a position where I am able to care for patients and being involved in medical education.
December 12, 2024 at 3:40 PM
Interesting, I didn’t read it like that. I had the impression he/she wanted to stress the fact that doctors are a privileged group of people and therefore supposed to feel more gratitude towards the education being offered.
December 12, 2024 at 3:13 PM