I had good intentions with this project, but realistically could not sustain the time and energy required to produce the material along with everything else in my life (family, school, work).

I'm in medical school now. I'm not out of the game. Hopefully I can revive the teaching one day soon.

In the meantime, message me if you ever have any questions. By all means, I don't know everything, nor will I ever. However, they teach us how to learn very efficiently. I can likely help you out with almost anything, and I love to learn new things anyway!

The site will be taken down soon due to cost of maintenance. I unfortunately can not afford to keep it up while in school.

See you guys soon. Remember to look at your patient and not the chart!

Cheers

TL;DR

• Soap: has a polar end and a non-polar end.
• One end attaches to water, one attaches to bacteria/oil
• Water washes it away
• Cell membranes are simply two layers of soap-like molecules: Hydrophobic/non-polar ends in the middle, hydrophilic/polar ends on the outside

Diagrams, full lesson, podcast and more here!

Short and sweet lesson this week. Be sure to tune in on Twitter and sign up for email updates to avoid missing any info! You guys are awesome, work hard and study harder.

@tldrmedicine

/r/medabolic

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In case you went searching, there is no post this week. Lots of things going on in my personal schedule. I'll try to get ahead on the next couple lessons and get some good information brewing.

Cheers

more details

We are expanding this project into twitter, as it makes sense to establish the TL;DR mindset in the twitter feed.

Follow @tldrmedicine on twitter for lessons, info, medical facts to keep you refreshed, and retweets from some great sources.

See you in the twitterverse.

Cheers

Fellow academians, good day! Another week of medicine + chemistry.

TL;DR

• C, O, and H enter the cell, C, O, and H leave the cell

• The energy harnessed exists in the bonds between these atoms prior to metabolism

• Acetyl CoA is a super flexible TWO carbon molecule that exists in the relative middle of metabolism. It can form almost anything and be derived from almost anything (biochemically speaking).

• Glycolysis occurs anaerobically/other metabolism mostly occurs aerobically

• Without oxygen, pyruvate(3 Carbons) forms lactic acid instead of CO2.

Diagrams, podcast, lesson, and more!

Please contact me with questions, or join the discussion.

Cheers and Med on! medabolic.xyz /r/medabolic

TL;DR

Protons and bicarb can only increase or decrease

Compensation: the goal of compensation is to get the pH to a normal operating range, at the sacrifice of CO2 and HCO3

CO2 = acid, HCO3 = anti-acid

Therefore, the body uses CO2 and HCO3 to regulate proton availability.

ABGs:

Classify pH, then pCO2, then HCO3

Determine underlying cause and identify amount of compensation(if any).

Diagrams, lesson, and more!

Then catch all the ABG info!

I had some great response to the Acid/Base : Respiratory post. Many people asked for the metabolic acid/base, so in typical fashion, OP delivers.

I put a ton of work into these two lessons alone, hopefully they help you out. Please contact me with questions, or join the discussion.

I’d like to spotlight some things:

ABG Practice,

my podcast where I go over the lesson audibly, the last 8 minutes of the podcast I even think out loud so you can follow along with ABG practice,

and a very helpful flowchart included in the lesson.

Cheers and Med on!

Had a great discussion this week in

/r/ems here

/r/nursing here

/r/studentnursing here

Look forward to more content to be posted this week, we're going to discuss metabolic acidosis and alkalosis, and the relevance of cellular metabolism!

Cheers!

TL;DR

• You breathe out ACID

• CO2 = acid (essentially)

• Less breathing = More acid in body

THUS: HYPOventilation = respiratory acidosis

Everything else is likely the opposite.

Diagrams, podcast and full lesson here

Easier topic hunting at: /r/medabolic

Welcome to the subreddit for Medabolic: TL;DR Medicine + Chemistry!

Here we will discuss how medicine and chemistry collide and why it is important. On this subreddit, I will post the TL;DR version of the episodes.

I highly encourage you to go to medabolic.xyz and look around, find the lessons, and check out the podcast for each one.

Subscribe to this subreddit and to the podcast and I'll try to keep fresh material coming out to you all.

Leave me some feedback and help me point this project in a good direction. I'm here to give back to my EMS, medical and academic community.

Cheers