More people have thyroid cancer than ever before, yet the mortality from thyroid cancer remains the same – low. All because none of us seem to know enough about how to thyroid nodules and their work-up.
Category Archives: Endocrinology
Take Thyroid Function Tests with a Grain of Iodine
There are many caveats to routinely testing hospitalised patients asymptomatic of thyroid pathology – namely those acutely unwell, or recent contrast loading (i.e. almost all of them).
A blood gas a day keeps the pseudohyponatraemia away
Consider doing a blood gas in hyponatremic patients, and think about pseudohyponatraemia if there’s a difference between formal electrolyte and VBG/ABG sodium. Adjust Na values for glucose. If they had a TURP recently, they’d tell you, it looks painful.
