Acid-Base Balance
MedicTests.com‘s Quick and Dirty Guide to Acid-Base Balance Acid-Base balance made simple. pH is a measurement of acidity. It just measures how acidic something is. When referencing acidity, we’re talking about excess hydrogen ions (H+), but we’re just going to use the general term “acid.” Its a scary foreign phrase, but it just means “percentage of...
Read MoreHeart Tones
Posted by admin on Dec 5, 2011 in Cardiology, Featured, Guides, Paramedic | 0 comments
MedicTests.com’s Quick and Dirty Guide to Heart Tones What are they, Where are they, and What are they for? Where to Listen The location for auscultation of each heart sound is in the diagram above. (M) Mitral (T) Tricuspid (A) Aortic (P) Pulmonic. The blue area is the pleura, pink is lung, red outline is heart. Why should I care about heart sounds? You can use heart tones in combination...
Read MoreMemorizing the Medical Assessment
Posted by admin on Dec 2, 2011 in Featured, Guides, Medical, National Registry, Paramedic | 0 comments
MedicTests.com’s Quick and Dirty Guide to Memorizing the National Registry Medical Assessments As usual, I want you to break it down into parts that are easy to remember, and then practice them in order until they are second nature. Assessment mnemonics – For this lesson, we’re not focusing on HOW to do an assessment as much as how to REMEMBER the steps! Your ENTIRE medical...
Read MoreCardiology II: Coronary Circulation
Posted by admin on Nov 23, 2011 in Featured, Guides, Paramedic | 0 comments
MedicTests.com’s Quick and Dirty Guide to Cardiology II: Coronary Circulation and Heart Attacks The heart is an organ whose muscles require oyxgenated blood too! Where does the heart muscle get its blood from? Where does it go? What happens when its blocked? Answer: 1) The heart gets its blood from arteries that branch off of the aorta called Coronary arteries. Answer 2) Blood goes through...
Read MoreCardiology I
Posted by admin on Nov 22, 2011 in Cardiology, EMT, Featured, Guides, Paramedic | 2 comments
Medictests.com’s Quick and Dirty guide to Cardiology Part 1 : The General Ideas Cardiology is the study of the heart. You want to be great at this, so I want you to study this a little at a time, and do not move on to the next part until you have an excellent grasp of this one. The way these guides will work, is that we will stack upon information learned in the last section. So, we will go...
Read MoreHow it works
Posted by admin on Oct 27, 2011 in | 0 comments
Our tests simulate the adaptive testing environment of the national registry exams. You're not getting easy tests that you can pass quickly and build confidence. These tests will beat you into shape. They find and fix the gaps in your knowledge. If you can consistently pass our tests, you will CRUSH the national registry. Here's a few ways our testing is significantly advanced over your standard html multiple choice quiz sites: *Questions are assigned points based on their difficulty, how necessary it is to your knowledge, and the importance of the principle involved as it relates to the subject. Each test populates questions randomly. If you miss a basic airway question, its going to cost you more points than a difficult question. If you happen to get a test that randomly populates with lots of "easy" questions, the number of correct questions you need in order to pass gets higher. If you have a particularly difficult test, it adjusts to the difficulty and you are allowed to miss more and still pass.
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