Pathophysiology Resources

sometimes you get what you pay for.

suggest you get the "..made incredibly simple" books, and the physiology coloring book (seriously, a real text, and really helpful).

Thanks, I just ordered the Incredibly Easy book and registered with Medscape. I sure hope they can help it 'sink in' so I can get as much as I can from this short summer course! I have information overload and it's only the first week of the eight week session, I hope these resources will help me make it with a decent grade.

Thanks again.

Also are there any good videos or animations on youtube that you could recommend for very basic concepts in patho? I don't want to watch random and possibly incorrect clips but if anything out there is all nurses approved...

If your textbook has a study guide you can buy, it might be worth a look.

I used both the "incredibly easy" book and the Mary Ann Hogan's Reviews & Rationales pathophysiology supplement guide that has a "bullet-point" outline of the highlights for each chapter plus 50 NCLEX-style questions per chapter (though my instructor was very much a "bold term" tester with no mention of nursing implications/considerations at all).

If you are confused come, tell us what confuses you and ask us we will help you.

That's part of why I love this site!

But I also love it for finding resources that simply make it easier to study -- like mnemonics or lists of references for self-testing/self-quizzing or animations. Some of the anatomy sites that I found out about near the end of the semester could have saved me a lot of time! Also, I love when I find a good animation for a physiology or pathophysiology process as those can condense multiple pages of text into a 2 minutes, easy-to-follow animation. (Unfortunately, those seem to be harder to come by than anatomy sites.)

If you are confused come, tell us what confuses you and ask us we will help you.

Thanks! You are so awesome.

From last week I was very confused about the sequence of inflammatory events within the vascalature. I thought it was vasodilation followed by increased capillary permeability leading to plasma leakage then edema. However I got that question wrong but can not find anything to the contrary in the text or notes. I'm thinking maybe arteriolar vasoconstriction occurs prior to the vasodialation but I'm not reading that anywhere and not sure why I am assuming it to occur.

The other thing I keep getting wrong is the cause of atopic dermatitis which the text says is of an unknown and complex etiology. Instead of focusing on the etiology should I be focusing on the non immunological inflammatory response associated with hypersensitivity?

Once again thanks for the assistance and clarification

I am taking pathophysiology in the fall as well and I will definitely take advantage of these resources to get a heads up. Thanks!

Campbellteaching on youtube is good. Be careful who's advice/knowledge you take on a message board too, some people are wrong with what they write.

My study group and I are stuck on the following question.

What happens to bilirubin with biliary obstruction?

Our group says the secondary biliary cirrhosis leads to inflamation of bile duct and that It causes the gallbladder to inflame, basically the same thing that would happen if you had a gallstone.

We are both talking about what happens because of the bilirubin during a biliary obstruction but not what happens TO the bilirubin.

Any assistance is appreciated.

Thanks

I'm not 100% sure, but I think these questions might help:

Where does the bilirubin come from? Where is it going when it goes through the duct? If it can't leave through that duct, where might it build up in your body? What would be the result of it building up in your body (e.g. does it affect just one organ (which one if just one)? more than one? or possibly even systemic?) would bilirubin be detectable by some sort of test or signs?

To me, the question of where does the bilirubin come from is the one that would probably get me to realize what would happen if one couldn't excrete it. You might also look up bilirubin lab testing on a site like medscape, MedlinePlus, Mayo Clinic, etc. as that's where I got the idea that where it's coming from might be relevant. (Also looking at the signs & symptoms of bile duct obstruction over on medlineline plus clued me in as to what I think the question is asking.)