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well i thought i would just come to vent so here i go! i spent 10 hours on the electrolytes chapter and still feel like i have not a clue of what i am doing! they all have very similar s/s some have the opposite of another some have the same s/s of another electrolyte!! eh...will it ever sink in!? :confused:

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Specializes in EMT-P.

You may want to dust off your old A&P books and review the autonomic nervous system and the muscular system. Review of the hypothalamus may also help.

Create a list of where each ion, such as Na+, Ca+, etc. is used and what it does, then consider the case of too much or too little of each.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.

Get the book Fluid and Electrolytes "Made Incredibly Easy". It breaks it down 1 electrolyte at a time, has pictures and charts that help. I wish I had this when I took my F/E test. But someone was nice enough to give me theirs, after my test lol. But these are important things to know b/c you WILL see this again.

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Create a list of where each ion, such as Na+, Ca+, etc. is used and what it does, then consider the case of too much or too little of each.

This was the key for me. So many of my classmates tried to study for Fluid and Electrolytes through sheer memorization and had problems. If you can understand why things are happening instead of merely what is happening, you have much better luck on exams.

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just thought i should update this... i ended up making an 85 on that test!!! whoop whoop :) xoxo

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