Provide proper care to your patients with further diagnostic skills. New fascicular blocks, or the presence of a left bundle branch block, represent developing or underlying cardiac conditions that may require a referral to cardiology. Learn how to diagnose these patterns.
EKG 102 is another advanced course, which continues to build on principles taught in the Anatomy of an EKG, EKG 100, and EKG 101. This course teaches the identification of left anterior fascicular blocks, left posterior fascicular blocks, incomplete left bundle branch blocks, and complete left bundle branch blocks.
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Identify and define left anterior fascicular blocks and left posterior fascicular blocks.
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Identify and define a leftward axis and poor precordial R wave progression.
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Identify and define a complete left bundle branch block and an incomplete left bundle branch block.
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Further discuss and identify early repolarization patterns and their relationship with left bundle branch blocks and incomplete left bundle branch blocks.
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Reinforce a systematic, step-by-step process to interpret an EKG.
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Reinforce concepts taught in the previous courses.
This course is approved for 3.2 contact hours by the Kansas State Board of Nursing.
Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Nurses
