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Ben Russell

@bentrussell.bsky.social

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Pediatric nephrology fellow, interests in clinical modeling, AKI, CRRT

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Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · Jun 26

Its so good

Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · Jun 9

Great example of how legislation matters — no surprise that states with more liberal carrying laws have higher rates of firearm mortality.

Firearm Laws and Pediatric Mortality in the US

This study attempts to measure excess mortality due to firearms among US children aged 0 to 17 years after the McDonald v Chicago US Supreme Court decision (2010).

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Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · May 26

I need to do this for you

Reposted by Ben Russell

Rolando Claure @runningkidneys.bsky.social · May 16

New meta-analysis shows children with #AKI have impaired growth—especially infants. Involving 3,586 children across 17 cohorts, those with #AKI had significantly lower height and weight z-scores than those without.

Growth monitoring should be a priority after pediatric #AKI.

Reposted by Ben Russell

ASN Publications @asnpublications.bsky.social · May 15

Multimodal AKI risk score accurately identifies patients who will develop Stage 2 AKI over two days earlier than serum creatinine alone. bit.ly/CJASN0695
#ASNCJASN

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Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · Apr 3

We are moving into an era in clinical medicine where we are finally able to aggregate individual predictors to assess risk on a continuous scale at different time-points using ML algorithms, but do we actually know what we are doing? There are so many poorly calibrated and misleading models.

Ben Russell @bentrussell.bsky.social · Mar 24

Just finished my first #PNRC meeting in Miami!

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