HELP Flash Cards

[pistachio]

I am currently enrolled in an EMT-B course and i am required to make flashcards for class. They need to include "Red Flags" in one corner, S/S and unique occurances in the next, Vitals in the next, and interventions in the last. I am really struggling seeing as my notes are pretty poor quality (never been a good note taker) and the book has information pretty much scattered through out and not in one place. I'm not asking for anyone to do the work for me or help me cheat i just really need some help.

I need cards for the following:
AAA
Atelectasis
Angina
AMI(male&female)
Pericardial Tamponade
Emphysema
Pleurecy
Pleural friction Rub
Hyperventilation
Traumatic Asphixia
Flail Chest
Epiglotittis
Croup
RSV
Diptheria
Chronic Bronchitis
Asthma
COPD(covering emphysema asthma and chronis bronchitis as a whole)
Pulmonary Embolism
Tension Pneumothorax
Hemothorax
Spontaneous Pneumo
Spontaneous Hemo
Acute Pulmonary Edema
CHF
Sucking Chest Wound
Pneumonia
CAD
Status Asthmaticus
Thrombophlebeitis
Pertussis

Any pertinent information would be greatly appreciated.

PLEASE HELP!

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

oh boy.....

paging medic 417 to the forums!

 

[MudMarine]

I'm not asking for anyone to do the work for me or help me cheat i just really need some help.

Yes you do.

Go to the Avery.com website and download template 5388 for 3x5 cards. Get some card stock paper from the office supply store. This is how I am learning all my medic meds and other misc vocab words.

 

[JPINFV]

I'm sure Robbins and Cotrans has all the information you need...h34r:

 

[Veneficus]

I'm sure Robbins and Cotrans has all the information you need...h34r:

I think that might set a Basic student's eyes on fire. :unsure:

 

[JPINFV]

I think that might set a Basic student's eyes on fire. :unsure:

Yea, but that's going to be my goto answer when people want their homework done for them. Personally, I think requiring flash cards is kinda of lame (they don't work for everyone and, at least at my school, sharing things like that are encouraged and supported with a student portal), but it is what it is.

Of course, which is better. Big Robins, Little Robbins, or Goljan (I've never used Goljan)?

 

[Veneficus]

Yea, but that's going to be my goto answer when people want their homework done for them. Personally, I think requiring flash cards is kinda of lame (they don't work for everyone and, at least at my school, sharing things like that are encouraged and supported with a student portal), but it is what it is.

Of course, which is better. Big Robins, Little Robbins, or Goljan (I've never used Goljan)?

If you want to learn patho, big Robbins is the bible. We used it and went through the whole thing in a semester. Being familiar with it, I m rather fond of it now. (I also like the smart alec comments in it like in the Neoplasm chapter)

Some of my class tried to shortcut with little Robbin's it did not work out so well for them. They said they had to spend time memorizing every chart, picture and graph. Not simply reading it through once.

I am told that Goljan is the way to go as a USMLE review if you used little Robbins. But I have started my second time through with Big Robbin's and plan to do it a third.

you may also find this:
http://doctorsintraining.com/USMLE/...mail&utm_campaign=2010+First Aid Errors Email

helpful.

Flashcards never worked for me. Especially the anatomy ones. Neither have coloring books.

I have no idea what "red flags" are anyway.

Some of the things on this list are absolutely absurd for Basic. Like Spontaneous Hemo. (most often secondary to malignancy) Idopathically extremely rare. (that is saying a lot)

So basics are now supposed to understand neovascularization of neoplasms and still call something a "sucking chest wound"?

I will never understand the madness of some educators.

 

[pistachio]

Yes you do.

Go to the Avery.com website and download template 5388 for 3x5 cards. Get some card stock paper from the office supply store. This is how I am learning all my medic meds and other misc vocab words.

Im not asking for people to do my note cards for me. What im asking is what are some key points that make these unique or different. Im trying to get input from people who have seen this stuff first hand. Besides alot of these having low BP and incresed repiration and increased pule, what are certain things that will set these apart. Like angina from an AMI i know you will see diaphorises in a pt with an MI apposed to a pt with angina

 

[Veneficus]

Im not asking for people to do my note cards for me. What im asking is what are some key points that make these unique or different. Im trying to get input from people who have seen this stuff first hand. Besides alot of these having low BP and incresed repiration and increased pule, what are certain things that will set these apart. Like angina from an AMI i know you will see diaphorises in a pt with an MI apposed to a pt with angina

Take JPs advice, go to a library and pull out "Robbins and Cotran Pathological Basis of Disease" or "Harrison's Internal Medicine"

While almost double to triple the size of the EMT text "Emergency Care" you will learn a lot more about ischemic heart disease and the symptoms.

like the difference between necrotic and non necrotic ischemic heart disease in terms other than sweating or not. (which is completely unreliable anyway)