Description
Description:
** This webinar series is for cardiac and critical care nurses on interpretation of 12 Lead ECG and not on how to perform them. Registrants must already be able to identify basic rhythms on a bedside monitor **
This webinar is designed for those staff who have experience in basic Lead II ECG interpretation and wish to learn how to analyze and interpret 12 lead ECGs. The workshop will focus on the “need to know” subjects of 12 Lead Electrocardiography and will include basic electrophysiology, a framework for interpretation, a review of the normal 12 Lead ECG, abnormalities, and recognition of ECG changes seen in myocardial ischemia and infarction.
Topics for the “A: The Fundamentals” webinar:
• A brief review of rate, rhythm, & interval Analysis
• Interpretation of the normal ECG including:
-• 12 Lead fundamentals
-• Lead localization
-• Axis determination
Topics for the “B: The Abnormal ECG: Ischemia, Injury, & Infarction” webinar :
• Identifying Ischemia & Infarction location and patterns
-• Inferior MI, Anterior MI, lateral MI and their combinations
-• Left main occlusion
-• Modified 15 lead ECG
-• Understanding clinical consequences of different MI’s
Topics for the “C: The Abnormal ECG Beyond Infarction” webinar :
• Electrical disturbances
-• Bundle branch blocks
–• Right bundle branch block
–• Left bundle branch block
-• Hemiblocks
–• Left anterior hemiblock/bifasicular block
-• MI & Left bundle branch block
• Metabolic disturbances
-• Electrolyte disturbances & hypothermia
-• Pericarditis
Who Should Attend?:
• Critical Care Nurses; Cardiac Care Nurses
• Emergency and Urgent Care Nurses in Urban & Rural Settings;
• EMT-P’s; Perfusionists, selected Respiratory Staff
• Interns; Medical Students, Physician’s Assistants, Nurse Practitioners; Outpost Nurses
** This webinar series is for cardiac and critical care nurses on interpretation of 12 Lead ECG and not on how to perform them. Registrants must already be able to identify basic rhythms on a bedside monitor **
Christopher Coltman, RN, BScN
Christopher Coltman, a graduate of the UofA Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, has been engaged in cardiac and cardiovascular surgical nursing for over 25 years. He has worked in a variety or settings and countries, including Montreal, London (England) and in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has extensive experience in the area of acute coronary syndrome, heart failure and cardiovascular surgery. Chris is well known as an excellent teacher, having over 17 years of teaching experience, and has taught a number of sessions on a variety of topics where his passion for teaching and cardiac care shows. He is currently the Clinical Nurse Educator in the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.
