Basic ECG Essentials II Course - Beyond Basics

Course modules include audio/visual presentation for online viewing.

Course manual not included (purchase separately).

This course is designed for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and medical students, because accurate ECG interpretation is fundamental to high-quality patient care, regardless of clinical role.

The course presents a shared, clinically focused approach to ECG interpretation, reflecting how ECGs are encountered and interpreted in real clinical practice.

We begin with essential principles of bedside cardiac monitoring, then move to a systematic approach to wide QRS complex patterns, allowing you to distinguish ventricular rhythms from conduction abnormalities.

You will learn to identify atrial arrhythmias, including atrial premature beats, atrial fibrillation, and atrial flutter, as well as junctional rhythms and all forms of atrioventricular block, from first-degree block to complete heart block.

The course also addresses ECG findings associated with dangerous electrolyte disturbances and introduces the fundamentals of twelve-lead ECG interpretation, establishing a framework for recognizing ten ECG patterns suggestive of myocardial ischemia.

Finally, you will learn how to identify myocardial infarction and understand why extending beyond the standard twelve-lead ECG to obtain an eighteen-lead ECG is essential for detecting high-risk infarctions that may otherwise go unrecognized.

This course is practical, clinically relevant, and designed to support clear thinking and confident clinical decision-making.

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