Richard Snyder

The first step to dealing with high blood pressure is understanding your blood pressure measurement — those over and under numbers. When you know what your blood pressure is, you need to know what to do next. The good news is, you may be able to prevent high blood pressure or reduce your blood pressure by making some lifestyle changes.

No matter what initials you have after your name (RN, CNA, PA, and so on), you can bet you’ll see math on a daily basis if you’re going into (or are already in) a career in the medical field.Grasping some medical math basics — such as how to break down medical dosage problems into steps and use conversion factors — can simplify everyday situations all health care professionals face.

When you're preparing to take the PANCE or PANRE, you may feel like you have to know an endless amount of information. How will you ever remember all the details of so many diseases and conditions? Here, you can review some useful mnemonics that will not only help your recall as you prepare for your physician assistant exam but also improve your clinical acumen.

Treating adrenal fatigue includes improving nutrition, replacing key nutrients, supplementing with antioxidants, reducing stress, and beginning a controlled exercise program. Before you can treat the condition, though, you need to recognize the symptoms that suggest you have adrenal fatigue.Recognizing the symptoms of adrenal fatigueIt’s hard to recognize the symptoms of adrenal fatigue for what they are.

The Physician Assistant exams will ask about low blood pressure, along with questions about high blood pressure. Hypotension has many causes, including infection, volume depletion, adrenal insufficiency, anemia, blood pressure medications, and so forth. Because of the depth of this topic, your focus for test purposes should be on the main causes of low blood pressure.

From rashes to eczema and bacterial infections to viral exanthems, these practice questions are similar to the dermatology questions on the Physician Assistant Exam (PANCE). Example PANCE Questions Which one of the following can develop into squamous cell carcinoma over time? (A) Onychomycosis (B) Actinic keratosis (C) Seborrheic keratosis (D) Psoriasis (E) Impetigo You’re evaluating a 25-year-old woman who presents with a rash on her face.

The pancreas is an important organ that has many functions in the body, both endocrine and exocrine and will be covered on the Physician Assistant Exam (PANCE). Concerning endocrine function, the pancreas produces insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin (or it’s supposed to). Concerning exocrine function, the pancreas secretes digestive enzymes such as the proteases, lipase, and amylase.

As a healthcare professional, you have to convert patient weights, fluid volumes, medication weights, and more. Conversion math isn’t hard to do as long as you know the basic conversion factors. Here are the most useful ones: Converting lb to kg and kg to lb lb = kg × 2.2 kg = lb ÷ 2.2 Converting mL to L a

Before getting into nasty medication side effects, drug-drug interactions, and toxic ingestions, you need to review basic pharmacological principles for the Physician Assistant Exam (PANCE). The body processes a medication in four basic ways: absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination. If any of these processes is altered in some way, then bad things can happen.