ICU Primary Prison ☠️
ICU Primary Prison ☠️
Grace Tankini Pearson
Summaries, important points, pharmacology and anything else for the ICU Primary Exam. Please be aware that these are my notes for study purposes, there may be errors and it is not for basing clinical decision making. And I cannot promise you’ll pass. Cover art photo provided by Owen Beard on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@owenbeard
Electrolyte bags
Touring the drug room with fluids and electrolytes
Jan 22, 2019
4 min
Drug room tour
Touring the drug room looking at amps and amounts
Jan 22, 2019
2 min
Liver and GIT
Some of the functions of the liver, broad overview. Hopefully enough to get through a question.
Jan 19, 2019
5 min
Neuro pharmacology
Neuro pharmacology for the primary exam
Jan 19, 2019
29 min
Cardio Pharmacology
Cardio pharmacology to hopefully get through the primary
Jan 19, 2019
8 min
Cardio physiology
Description of the various cardiac reflexes including barroreceptors (high and low) Bainbridge reflex, Bezold Jarisch, Chemoreceptors, Cushing reflex, occulocardic reflex.
Jan 19, 2019
31 min
Battling the Bugs - micro and antimicrobials
Methods of antimicrobial resistance with examples, VRE, MRSA, ESCAPPM, capsulated bacteria.
Jan 18, 2019
41 min
Systemic V pulmonary circulation
Comparison between systemic and pulmonary circulations, a little bit of tangential waffle included.
Jan 18, 2019
13 min
Regional circulations
Blood flow, oxygen consumption and PvO2 for the regional circulations: brain, hepatic, renal, coronary, cutaneous, muscles.
Jan 18, 2019
10 min
Parasympathetic and sympathetic basics comparison
Ignore the part where I call the sympathetic the parasympathetic at the start. Parasympathetic is rest and digest, sympathetic is flight or fight.
Jan 18, 2019
40 min