| 12-Leads Made Easy: STEMI Basics and Beyond |
| Date(s): |
Sunday, November 13, 2016
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| Time: |
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
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| Location: |
United Training Center
338 East Ave.
Lewiston, ME 04240 |
| Cost: |
FREE OF CHARGE |
| Instructor: |
Tim Phalen |
| Phone: |
207.782.8414 |
| E-mail Address: |
education@unitedambulance.net |
| Comments: |
Course Sponsor - Physio-Control, Inc. |
| Class Description: |
12-Leads Made Easy: STEMI Basics and Beyond
Session 1 (60 minutes)
STEMI Recognition Overview
Recognition of J point elevation
Lead “views”
Session 2 (60 Minutes)
Suspecting STEMI
Evolutions of STEMI
5 Important ECG changes associated with STEMI
Session 3 (60 minutes)
The Top STEMI Impostors
Goal: Maximize STEMI’s identified with acceptable
false positive rate
Assumption: 10% false positive rate is
adequate
Session 4 (60 minutes)
15 and 18 lead ECGs (Right ventricular and posterior
infarction)
12-lead has to “blind spots”
Session 5 (60 minutes)
Suspecting STEMI in the presence of an Impostor
Presence of an impostor does not rule out STEMI
Good decisions always made in light of clinical
setting
ECG findings can shed much light on situation
Course review
Final ECG interpretation practice
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| General Comments: |
Tim Phalen has provided ECG education to over 50,000 healthcare providers in the United States, Canada, and overseas. He is recognized for his easy-to- understand approach, his relaxed style, and his audiences frequently state that they learned more about ECG’s in one day of his class than they had in all the previous years. Tim was recognized by the American Heart Association in the 1997 ACLS Textbook, has written journal articles, authored The 12-lead ECG in Acute Myocardial Infarction and co-authored The 12-lead ECG in Acute Coronary Syndromes. |
| Class Size Limit: |
48
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| Registrations: |
48
people have
signed up.
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Registration is not currently allowed
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