Cardiology Essentials for the NP
Course Summary
Credits:
3.75 CE
Format:
Cost:
Course
215 tokens | $250
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Enhance your skills in managing cardiology presentations.
Prepare for your cardiology patients that may present to urgent care or the emergency department. In this course, you will learn to identify common and life-threatening arrhythmias and findings for various heart disease processes. Review basics such as ECG physiology, axis, voltage, and anatomy and be able to read ECGs to identify abnormalities. Confidently diagnose and treat common chest pain and bradycardic and tachycardic heart conditions. This engaging course by a trio of cardiology friends (aka the CardioNerds) includes 3.75 CEs, 5 hours of video content, downloadable pdfs of the slides, 80 ECGs to review, algorithms for diagnosis, and post-course quiz to test your knowledge.
Topics Covered in the
Course
Approach to the ECG
ECG basics, including anatomy, physiology, and voltage
Stepwise approach to reading ECGs, including rate, rhythm, axis, and intervals
Identifying common and life-threatening arrhythmias, such as SVT and bundle branch blocks, on ECG, as well as other conditions, such as electrolyte abnormalities
Tachycardia
Case-based discussions and systematic, step-by-step approaches to assessment of tachycardia
Narrow-complex tachycardia, including sinus tachycardia, atrial tachycardia, SVT (AVNRT, AVRT), and atrial fibrillation and flutter
Wide-complex tachycardia, including SVT with aberrancy, Torsades de Pointes, and ventricular fibrillation
Bradycardia
Common causes of bradycardia, case-based discussions, and stepwise approaches to diagnosis
Sinoatrial (SA) nodal disease, including sinus bradycardia, sinus pause/arrest, tachy-brady syndrome
Atrioventricular (AV) nodal disease, including first-, second-, and third-degree AV block, Mobitz type 1 and 2, complete heart block, junctional escape, ventricular escape rhythm
Review of medications and pacing techniques for management
Canāt Miss Chest Pain
Approach to the history and physical of patients presenting with chest pain as well as when to order testing and determine if serial testing is needed, including ECGs and troponin
Case-based review of chest pain and associated ECG changes found in classic STEMI and atypical STEMI equivalents.
Differentiation of life-threatening cause and ischemic versus non-ischemic etiologies, and identify STEMI, De Winter, Wellen, ST-segment changes
Review of antiplatelets and other medication therapies
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Continuing Education
Credit Designation:
Credit Designation: This activity is approved for 3.75 contact hour(s) of continuing education (which includes 0.0 hour(s) of pharmacology) by the American Association of Nurse PractitionersĀ®. Activity ID# 22085699. This activity was planned in accordance with AANP Accreditation Standards and Policies.
This educational activity is eligible for 3.75 Category 2-B credit hours by the American Osteopathic Association.