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ECG and Cardiology Courses Now Available Online

Whether the participant wants to learn electrocardiography (all levels available from basic to advanced), or to prepare themselves for ECG Board Certification Examinations, these online courses were designed to help you achieve your goals.

Planning a career in cardiac nursing, ECG or monitor technician, or cath lab staff, we can assist you in learning to read the most important diagnostic tool in cardiology and assist you in becoming ECG Board Certified.

Reading ECG's on a hospital panel, we have an emergency and advanced reading course online for physicians to refresh their skills and become ECG Board Certified at this advanced level (some hospitals require this certification before physicians can read on the ECG panel).

In addition to the subject of electrocardiography, we are developing an entire line of CVN training programs to complete the CVN Fellowship Training Needs. We currently added four new courses in cardiology: Heart Sounds and Valvular Disorders, Anatomy of the Heart and Conduction System, Continuous 12-Lead ECG Monitoring, and Identification and Management of ACS.

Online Courses Available

You can order individual or group seating for these courses and lessons.

1) Basic ECG
2) 12-Lead ECG
3) Continuous 12-Lead Monitoring of the 8 Common Cardiac Emergencies
4) Emergency ECG
5) Advanced ECG
6) ACS: Identification and Management of STEMI, NSTEMI, UA
7) Anatomy of the Heart & Conduction System
8) Heart Sounds and Valvular Disorders
9) ECG Competency Assessment Tools (ECG/CAT) Testing Available for Staff

1) Basic ECG and Beyond Course Contents

Course developed for technicians, nurses and medical students.

All except one of the lessons are developed in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format and will run in flash software.

The student may proceed through the lessons at their own pace. Lesson 13 was developed in a Microsoft Word format and should be printed out for study (one time only).

Course Content:

Lesson 1 - Sinus Rhythms & Calculating Heart Rate
Lesson 2 - Bundle Branch Blocks
Lesson 3 - Atrial Rhythms
Lesson 4 - Junctional Rhythms
Lesson 5 - Ventricular Rhythms
Lesson 6 - AV Blocks
Lesson 7 - Electrolyte Disturbances
Lesson 8 - Myocardial Ischemia
Lesson 9 - Myocardial Infarction
Lesson 10 - 12-Lead ECG Recording, Reading, & Bedside Monitoring
Essentials
Lesson 11 - Bedside ECG Monitoring Practice
Lesson 12 - Differentiating the Wide-QRS Patterns
Lesson 13 - Basic ECG Essentials Review Manual & Basic Practice Exam

View Details of Basic ECG Course

Course Cost:

Six month individual seats: $139.95 each: Purchase Below:

Six month group & member seats: $79.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 32 Contact Hours of Credit

2) 12-Lead ECG Course Content

All except one of the lessons are developed in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format and will run in flash software.

If a student already took the Basic ECG Course before this 12-Lead Course, they have already completed lessons 10-12 of the Basic Course. If they did not take the Basic ECG Course, they will need to begin with these three lessons in this 12-Lead Course (only they are called lessons 1-3).

If the student has already completed lessons 10-12 from Basic ECG and want to review them again, they have the opportunity to do so in this course. If the student does not need to repeat these lessons, then begin with lesson 4 below. The student through the lessons at their own pace over the year of their membership. Lesson 14 was developed in a Microsoft Word format and should be printed out for study.

Course Content:

Lesson 1 - 12-Lead ECG Recording, Reading, & Bedside Monitoring
      Essentials
Lesson 2 – Bedside ECG Monitoring
Lesson 3 – Differentiating the Wide-QRS Patterns
Lesson 4 - Calculating the Electrical Axis of the Heart beat
Lesson 5 - Atrial Arrhythmia Reading Practice
Lesson 6 - Supraventricular Arrhythmia Reading
Lesson 7 – Ventricular Aberration Identification
Lesson 8 - Ventricular Arrhythmia Reading
Lesson 9 - Electrolyte Disturbance Reading
Lesson 10 - Acute Myocardial Infarction Reading
Lesson 11 - Atrioventricular Block Reading
Lesson 12 - AV Dissociation Reading
Lesson 13 - 12-Lead ECG Reading Practice
Lesson 14 - 12-Lead ECG Essentials Manual & 12-Lead Board Certification
      Practice Exam

View Details of 12-Lead Course

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: $139.95 each: Purchase Below:

3) Clinical Importance of Continuous
12-Lead Monitoring

This program provides the training element necessary for Emergency physicians and nurses, and for telemetry and CCU/CVICU medical and nursing staff. It provides an extensive overview of continuous 12-lead ECG monitoring of the eight common cardiac emergencies for all healthcare providers.

Course Contents:

1) Myocardial Ischemia and Injury
2) Pericarditis
3) Pulmonary Embolus
4) Electrolyte Disturbances
5) Pre-Excitation Tachycardias
6) Wide QRS Tachycardias
7) Narrow QRS Tachycardias
8) AV Blocks

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: $29.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 2 CE Credit hours for self study.

4) Emergency ECG Course

This lesson was developed for emergency physician, nursing and paramedic staff. It was designed in a Microsoft Word format and will run in flash software. You may print this document for study or view it in flash software as designed.

Course Contents:

1. Prologue of the Urgent Trace
2. The Evident Infarction
3. The Less Obvious Infarction
4. Infarction Mimics
5. Diagnosing the Wide QRS Tachycardias
6. Supraventricular Tachycardias
7. Dangerous Bradycardias
8. Electrolytes at Panic Levels
9. Emergency ECG Practice Examination with Answers

View Details of Emergency Course

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: $39.95 each: Purchase Below:

Six month group and member seats: $29.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 18 CE Credit hours for self study.

5) Advanced ECG Course Contents

This course was developed for physicians reading on hospital ECG panels, and educators who teach advanced ECG concepts.

Not recommended for nurses or technicians, but they are welcome to take the challenge.

Lessons 1-2 are developed in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation format and will run in flash software. You may proceed through the lessons at your own pace over a six month period.

Course Content:

Lesson 1 - Advanced ECG Review Course
Lesson 2 - Advanced ECG Practice Certification Exam

View Details of Advanced 12-Lead/Arrhythmia Course

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seating: $49.95 each: Purchase Below:

Six month group & member seating: $39.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 4.0 Contact Hours

6) Acute Coronary Syndromes: Identification and Management

This program provides the training element necessary for Chest Pain Center physician and nursing staff members. It provides an extensive overview of identification and management of ACS, NSTEMI, and UA.

Also useful in training telemetry acute care staff physicians, nurses and technicians.

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: $29.95 each: Purchase Below

Six month group & member seats: $19.95 each: Purchase Below

Provides 4 CE Credit hours for self study.

7) Anatomy of the Heart and Conduction System

This course was designed for medical students, cardiovascular nurses, and CVTs working in Echo, Radiology, and Cath labs.

This copiously illustrated course makes a great teaching tool for self learning, or for educators who lecture on anatomy. Actual images of the heart are used along with some drawn diagrams, and X-ray images taken in a cath lab.

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: $24.95 each: Purchase Below:

Six month group and member seats: $19.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 2 CE Credit hours for self study.

8) Heart Sounds and Valve Disorders

This course was designed for medical students, cardiac nurses, and technicians.

It provides an extensive lesson on heart sounds and valve disorders for anyone needing a primary or refresher course in heart sounds.

Cost of Course:

Six month individual seats: 29.95 each: Purchase Below:

Six month group and member seats: 19.95 each: Purchase Below:

Provides 4 CE Credit hours for self study.

9) ECG Competency Assessment Tools (ECG/CAT) for Hospital and Clinic Use

Do you want a national standardized in-house ECG assessment tool for your house staff physicians, nurses, or technicians, developed by experts in the field?

Do you see the need to validate your staff's knowledge in telemetry monitoring, ECG and 12-lead applications and reading, and/or in the identification of the cardiac emergency, using a national standard assessment tool?

Call today to order your ECG Competency Assessment Tool Kit (ECG/CAT). Discounts Available for Groups.

Available in Basic, 12-Lead, Emergency, and Advanced ECG: (813)234-1033

These ECG/CATs can be taken online in your education or computer learning labs by using a username and login given to your education department for system wide use. This username and password is good for a year.

Cost of Testing:

$30 for 1-50 persons
$25 for 51-100 persons
$20 for 101 or more persons

In order to purchase this product, a phone call must be made to determine the number of tests you need to purchase.
Call (813)532-2512 or 813-234-1033 & ask for Jonni Cooper

Why use an Outside ECG/CAT?

To provide a validated independent assessment of your staff's ability to record, read, and respond to an ECG?

We have found through a national survey that all hospitals make up their own competency tests in ECG reading with no standard of practice to follow. In these "home made" exams, the leads are often not labeled, and there is only one rhythm strip or point of view per entity, when more leads are is needed to make many diagnoses, and they are totally lacking in skills performance testing for patient ECG monitoring practice, and/or 12-lead applications.

Going up the ladder a bit to the physicians, most hospitals just accept that a physician can read an ECG, but in fact when large numbers of them are tested, about half will be reading at a substandard level. Yet others require their physician panel readers to be board certified in ECG to read on the panels. In addition, emergency physicians are not being made to pass an Emergency level ECG Board Certification Exam and we are sending about 12% of our patients home with ACS that was not recognized in our Emergency departments. This problem could be alleviated by hospitals insisting on ECG Board Certification for all staff members, not just a few.

How the ECG/CAT Membership Works

Don't be caught with a home made ECG assessment test, when you can have an outside testing source which comes right to your hospital with a validated ECG/CAT. We set you up for the number of ECG/CATs you need (example: you purchased 50 seats), issue a username and password, and provide a year for your staff to access the online ECG/CAT. Because the ECG/CAT is revised annually, you will need to renew your ECG/CAT membership each year. The second year you join the ECG/CAT membership plan, you are eligible for these updates at a fraction of the original cost.

To order your ECG/CAT for Basic, 12-Lead, Emergency, or Advanced ECG levels, contact Jonni Cooper, PhD at (813)234-1033 or jcooper17@tampabay.rr.com, to help you determine a plan that will work for you at a price you can afford.