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1. Study tips for Pharmcology?

   medbullet replied to NewGradRN96's topic in General Students

   It's a bit difficult to provide great advice about studying for your course in general because courses are very different between institutions and individual instructors in terms of what aspects of pharm or pathophys they decide to focus more heavily...

2. Clinical Instructors say the darndest things

   medbullet replied to Lulu Belle's topic in General Students

   chare, that's the most intelligent reply to one of these questions I've seen in a while. We should encourage our peers to seek answers and insight into their daily struggles rather than going out amongst their peers in search of validation of their ...

3. Decreased cardiac output for right-sided heart failure???

   medbullet replied to Kickflip012's topic in General Students

   The volume overload in this case is not a result of a "compromised" regulatory mechanism. The retention/reabsorption of excessive fluids actually means that the regulatory mechanism(s) are working appropriately. The increased intravascular volume i...

4. Advise for Nursing Student with tremors!

   medbullet replied to DH1234's topic in General Students

   First, as previously mentioned, you need to decide if this is actually a safety issue. If this is a safety issue for your patients OR YOU then you have no choice; a beta blocker is the best treatment and very effective for essential tremor. Addition...

5. Decreased cardiac output for right-sided heart failure???

   medbullet replied to Kickflip012's topic in General Students

   OcMurse93, You boldly stated that the blood pressure would not be normal in heart failure and that "the body" would compensate for decreased cardiac output via increased heart rate however the pathophysiology of heart failure and the various compensa...

6. are the signs of hyper/hypokalemia the same if the cause is a transcellular shift?

   medbullet replied to bailyoneohnine's topic in General Students

   When a patient is in DKA they are ALWAYS volume down and they are ALWAYS low on TOTAL potassium. Lack of insulin and acidosis 2/2 insulin deficiency (and subsequent ketone development) cause the shift of K+ out of cells and then the massive diuresis...

7. Review test question

   medbullet replied to amynye's topic in General Students

   Many questions are written in a manner that is focused more on testing your knowledge of a specific area and less focused on clinical accuracy. The answer to this question is the same regardless of whether or not your hypothetical patient was treate...

8. are the signs of hyper/hypokalemia the same if the cause is a transcellular shift?

   medbullet replied to bailyoneohnine's topic in General Students

   When you are in school it is easy to get bogged down and sidetracked with questions like this. I spent far too much time during school creating problems for myself and then trying to solve them. I would suggest stepping back and looking at these is...