In this post… How to assess free water balance in the dysnatraemias How to factor in solute / cation balance “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” — Proverb So the proverb goes. But that is only because whoever came up with the proverb back in the 19th century had never attempted to assess free water balance in a case of hyponatraemia. More than any other electrolyte disorder, hyponatraemia has the capacity to become unneccessarily complicated.

“Renal physiology has now passed into a quantitative phase where unsupported speculation and empirical description are no longer warranted.” — Homer Smith, 1951 In this post… What are the aims of this blog? Where does the name come from? Why write a blog? I enjoy learning about renal physiology - in particular those aspects that are relevant to clinical disorders of fluid-electrolyte balance. However I have a bad habit of reading up on a topic, understanding it for 10 minutes, and promptly forgetting it again.