This 4-hour course intends to provide the necessary skills to the healthcare provider to increase comfort and knowledge base in performing EKGs.
This course covers will review detailed anatomy and physiology of the heart, medical disease processes and terminology, medical ethics and legal aspects of patient contact, electrocardiography and echocardiography, an introduction to the components, function, and proper use of the EKG machine, the normal anatomy of the chest wall for proper lead placement, and proper 12-lead order.
