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ArticleClinical case reports2021

Point-of-care Doppler ultrasound in the management of hyponatremia: Another string to nephrologists' Bow.

Samira Samant, Abhilash Koratala

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Article in Clinical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.4field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Clinical utility of VExUS score for anaesthesiologists.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2023
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  8. Point-of-care ultrasound in pediatric nephrology.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Samira SamantDivision of Nephrology Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee WI USA.
Abhilash KoratalaDivision of Nephrology Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee WI USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5801-3574
Medical College of Wisconsin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective assessment of fluid status is vital for the appropriate management of patients with hyponatremia. Conventional physical examination suffers from several limitations in this regard, and point-of-care Doppler ultrasonography can be used as an adjunct to clinical and laboratory data in evaluating these patients.

Indexed as

DopplerHyponatremiaNephrologyPOCUSpoint‐of‐care ultrasoundVExUS

Identifiers

PMID34471537
PMCPMC8387783
OpenAlexW3196755800

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