The Heart of Anesthesia: ECG and arrhythmias
Sign up for this intermediate course to bridge the gap in knowledge from textbook school learning to real-world advanced anesthesia skills!
This interactive course is designed to teach the parts of the ECG waveform and how they relate to the heart’s function, as well as learn to identify common arrhythmias such as VPCs, AV block, AV dissociation, and escape beats. We’ll begin with the normal waveform and identify the parts of the waveform as they relate to the heart. From there, we will look at how this waveform can vary and what various arrhythmias mean for heart function. This course also discusses the best way to treat these various arrhythmias when intervention is needed.
The last 15-20 minutes consists of a variety of real-world ECGs that attendees can practice identifying and treating, including examples such as AV dissociation, escape beats versus VPCs, AV block, and unstable arrhythmias like VTach. This course is intended to better prepare you to identify (and know when and how to treat!) arrhythmias in real world anesthetic cases.
This course has been race approved for 1 hour of
continuing education credit in jurisdictions which recognize RACE approval. “
By completing this course you’ll be able to:
- Navigate an ECG with confidence
- Understand how electrical activity translates to heart function