ICU Primary Prison ☠️: Recent Episodes
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
Some of the functions of the liver, broad overview. Hopefully enough to get through a question.
Description of the various cardiac reflexes including barroreceptors (high and low) Bainbridge reflex, Bezold Jarisch, Chemoreceptors, Cushing reflex, occulocardic reflex.
Methods of antimicrobial resistance with examples, VRE, MRSA, ESCAPPM, capsulated bacteria.
Comparison between systemic and pulmonary circulations, a little bit of tangential waffle included.
Blood flow, oxygen consumption and PvO2 for the regional circulations: brain, hepatic, renal, coronary, cutaneous, muscles.
Ignore the part where I call the sympathetic the parasympathetic at the start. Parasympathetic is rest and digest, sympathetic is flight or fight.