xamxam szn

covering acute pulmonary oedema content from tutorial workshop and CLE scenario (pathophys, presentation, ax/mx, escalation) and briefly touching on basic life support

laptop died at 45.20 at like 11pm so i recorded the second part six days later :)

(week zero, sem one, year three) of xam seasoning

covering respiratory including supplemental oxygen therapy and the escalation/upgrade of o2 modalities, NIPPV and PEEP, non-cardiogenic APO causes, and a lovely ISBAR for nonna 58yo with multifactorial acute pulmonary oedema

please revisit 'acute frothy pink sputum smoothie' for more APO content :>

welcome back to the start of a new exam season :)) only one exam so i am only revising for this unit, alongside completing my grad year application heh. not busy but very invested. i hope u enjoi as much as i do

(day one, sem one, year three) of xamxam szn

covering respiratory including pulmonary embolism, a rollercoaster ride with penny 27yo (MET call upgrade to code blue), BLS refresher and brief intro to ALS with non-shockable cardiac arrest ddx [4H's and 4T's] and resus pharmacology.

we also skim anticoag/thrombolytic/embolectomy as PE mx/tx, i might revisit this another time. i talk a tiny bit about Q/V physiology too.

for more clot stuff, coagulation cascade/fibrinolytic system stuff, please visit my 'cranberry juice, anaemic girlbossing and vasc bbgs' episode

(day two, sem one, year three) of batxam

covering renal (part one) normal kidney anatomy and physiology, guided by acronym 'a wet bed' + an AKI speedrun any%

1/3 renal sequence, please msg me if you would like some pdf notes to help illustrate some of this content. it hurt my brain trying to sort it out whilst looking at it; i can barely imagine the cognitive discomfort of visualising renal content from my unchoreographed mumbling.

(day four, sem one, year three) of xampling dot

covering renal (part two) abnormal kidney anatomy and physiology in chronic kidney disease, ckd staging, ckd-mbd + 2o and 3o hyperparathyroidism

(day five, sem one, year three) of xamplification

covering renal (part three) a comprehensive head-to-toe systematic assessment of ckd, assisted by applying an 'a wet bed' algorithm to each focused ax

(day six, sem one, year three) of listening to newjeans and sarah kang on repeat

covering cardiac including everything you will ever want to know about electrocardiogram (ECG) 12-lead interpretation with a thorough revision of heart anatomy, vasculature, conduction, electrophysiology and how they're all bundled together to capture a true picture of your heart with only a bunch of squiggly lines

im sorry for the rambling in this one :) there's so much more i would like to talk about with AV blocks, re-entries, junctionals, ectopics, hypo/hyperkalaemia, torsades de pointes. maybe another time c:

(day six, sem one, year three) of feeling heart

glimpsing at the invisible lines between face washers and re-entrant tachyarrhythmias in the true empathetic care of people and ourselves

a smol beby episode :>> exploring something im curious about which is the fundamentals of what makes a good nurse