Acid-Base, Fluids, and Electrolytes Made Ridiculously Simple 3rd Edition

Easy to read and understand

This book is GREAT for those who want a more in depth look at how fluids, electrolytes, and acid-base balance all intertwine. I used to work in dialysis, and I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is in that field. It explains (if you apply the knowledge to what you have learned about dialysis) why bicarb is bicarb... Exactly how it buffers since the kidney can't and a LOT more!!!For any other Field, this is the basis you will use every time you read a BMP/CMP. You will be able to look at he labs and the symptoms to determine which fluids to use. You will know why you chose that one... not just because "they always do," but because you will understand the reason that fluid is chosen and another is not.A lay person could read this and understand pretty good... but someone with basic medical training (EMT-B, MA, etc..) could read this book and learn a lot from it. At the same time as a RN/Paramedic with 17 yrs behind me, I am learning & relearning a lot of things. It ties things I have seen over the years together and they make more sense now.Summary: DEFINITELY worth the money!!! If you are in Med school or school for PA, ARNP, RN, or Paramedic, I highly recommend you read this book in what little free time you have. You will be happy you did!!!

I read clinical neuro anatomy made ridiculously easy and thought I had to try the rest of the series. This doesn’t have hardly any photos and much less jokes or pneumonic to help you remember things. That being said it is still a helpful summary that I am learning from.

Great resource for those in the medical field or working in the ICU.

This is a great book that puts things is easy to understand words. I think anyone from med student to nurse can benefit from this book.

This is an amazing book, I wish I had read it when I was in pa school! So succinct and helps with intuitive understanding of patient presentation. Make sure you work though the exercises at the end of each chapter!

Background: 1st year medical student (i.e., the struggle is real). I was hesitant to purchase this book because I was afraid it was going to be insultingly simple. Not the case. The book is well-written to the point that if you just trust that the author will explain what he means in the soon to follow paragraphs, you'll understand the content covered in this book.

This book is excellent for the up and coming NP. The book itself is simple yet complex, and explains concepts in such a way that other books may not do so well in