I suck at 12 leads

[mobey]

Anyone know of an online, quality course to help me out?

My school FAILED in this area, and I have all the books..... Just looking for something different.

Before you ask .... no, there are no seminars or con-ed stuff in my area on this topic.

Thx!

[Bieber]

http://urbanhealth.udmercy.edu/ekg/read.html

http://www.publicsafety.net/12lead_dx.htm

http://www.sh.lsuhsc.edu/fammed/OutpatientManual/EKG/ecghome.html

Have a look at those, and good luck. If you have any specific questions, I'd be happy to help as much as I can--and there's a lot of much more knowledgeable and experienced people on these forums than me that I'm sure would help.

[spenac]

Don't know anything about these:

http://en.ecgpedia.org/

http://www.ecgcourse.com/course_overview.cfm

http://www.corexcel.com/ecg/introduction.ecg.course.htm?gclid=CPDH1unA76YCFddA2godMDlCEA

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/

[DwayneEMTP]

Hey Mobey,

I don't have time to search for it now, and I may have posted it before here. There is an online ECG library that has hundreds and hundreds of strips. It's set up in a quick format, you choose to view either 1,2,3,4 or 5 star strips, considered to be of increasing difficulty the more stars, and then it give a professional analysis of the strip after you decide what you think it is. It's awesome! I used to skype with another medic student and we'd argue these for hour and have a great time! I believe it was made for Docs...

Also, there is a great site that I also don't have a link for (Had to reformat my drive so lost all of my bookmarks) that just tries to fool you with the 'mimics.' It gives you 4 answers, if I remember right, and you have to decide which one is correct. The trick is that they've tried to give relatively common sense pathologies and then try to fool you with common mimics of those conditions. I liked that one a lot!

Sorry brother, I'll try to find them when I have time, but I'm sure I found them both by Googling ECG or EKG or the like.

Dwayne

Note. I just found this site, cardiology site , and only looked through the first problem, but it looks really good!! Also, if you ever want to make some time to Skype and argue cardiology, that would be awesome!

[kndoug1]

Mobey,

I found this course online. After I finished EMT school, I needed to be able to do EKG's for the ER Tech job I applied for. I went through this free online course and also picked up a copy of Dale Dubin's "Rapid Interpretation of EKG's" at Borders and was able to challenge the hospital's course requirement and got 100% of the questions on their exam correct, so I would say that these two resources combined were extremely helpful! The book has like 30 practice strips and also walks you through each type of abnormal finding and why they occur, as well as lead placement and a review of each component of the EKG strip.

http://www.rnceus.com/course_frame.asp?exam_id=16&directory=ekg

or just go to www.rnceus.com and you can check out their entire website.

Good luck!

[mobey]

Thanks for all the replies!

Does anyone have any experience with any of the courses posted?

I do not need rhythm interpretation, just 12 lead work (BBB, axis, VH etc.).

[Tom B.]

I wrote a tutorial on axis determination here:

http://ems12lead.com/2008/10/04/axis-determination-part-i/

Good luck!

Tom

[wrmedic82]

Here is the link to a site by Dr. Frank Yanowitz. Dr. Yanowitz works with our company to assist us on abnormal ECG. He is a expert in the field of cardiac electrophysiology.

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/ecg/

[fiznat]

I believe this is the website Dwayne was referring to:

ECG Wave-Maven

It really is an excellent resource. Search by difficulty, diagnosis, or randomizer. Good explanations, too.

[DwayneEMTP]

I believe this is the website Dwayne was referring to:

ECG Wave-Maven

It really is an excellent resource. Search by difficulty, diagnosis, or randomizer. Good explanations, too.

Yeah!! I love that site! I wished at times that I could argue against some of the answers, but yeah, then I like to argue against just about everything.

Thanks Fiz..

Dwayne