CCP-C Prep Material

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I am gearing up to take the CCP-C exam in the very near future. I have been preparing by using a variety of different materials including the UMBC CCEMT-P textbook, misc Youtube and online sources, and the CCP-C review app for iOS.

What are some of the best resources to use? I am most curious about the CCP-C review app I have. Are the questions presented in the app identical to what I will see on the actual exam? The questions in the app don't really seem that hard to me.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/critical-care-paramedic-review/id468488044?mt=8
 

TransportJockey

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Honestly, I always tell people to look at Will Wingfield's ACE SAT program (either the book or video series). It's what I primarily used for FP-C and it's amazing, even if it is a little dated. Cherry's Back to Basics is a good book as well for review.
As far as texts to study the ASTNA Critical Care Nursing book is a great resource.
 

Carlos Danger

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It's been a long time since I took one of these exams, and we didn't have all these prep resources when I was taking CFP and CFRN so I don't know anything about them.

What I will say is that for a paramedic who wants to learn about critical care, the best bang-for-the-buck, most high yield useful information-per page resource that I have ever seen is the FCCS course manual. Marino's ICU Book is excellent, as well.

I can't say those resources are "test prep" material, but for general learning in an efficient format, they are impossible to beat.
 

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It's been a long time since I took one of these exams, and we didn't have all these prep resources when I was taking CFP and CFRN so I don't know anything about them.

What I will say is that for a paramedic who wants to learn about critical care, the best bang-for-the-buck, most high yield useful information-per page resource that I have ever seen is the FCCS course manual. Marino's ICU Book is excellent, as well.

I can't promote those resources as "test prep" material, but for general learning, for anyone who is interested in that.
I'll have to look those up to add to my home library :)
 

Carlos Danger

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The FCCS text and course are designed for non-intensivist clinicians (ED personnel, mostly) in non-tertiary facilities who have to provide the initial assessment and management (first 24 hours) of a patient who will eventually require tertiary critical care services.

Paramedics are not the intended audience, but the material is highly applicable to the situation where you are picking up a really sick patient in a small ED to transfer them to a tertiary center.
 

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The FCCS text and course are designed for non-intensivist clinicians (ED personnel, mostly) in non-tertiary facilities who have to provide the initial assessment and management (first 24 hours) of a patient who will eventually require tertiary critical care services.

Paramedics are not the intended audience, but the material is highly applicable to the situation where you are picking up a really sick patient in a small ED to transfer them to a tertiary center.
I actually like books and courses like that. It forces me to look more into things if I run into something that I have no idea what they're talking about
 
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