Competency information
Details
Check and annotate ECG recording and identify both normal and variations from normal, including:
- life-threatening arrhythmias
- myocardial ischaemia and infarction.
Considerations
- How to check and annotate recordings to ensure accuracy, completeness, legibility and suitability for analysis and reporting.
- Normal variations related to age, gender, activity and ethnic origin.
- When to refer results to a senior colleague for further action.
- ECG changes associated with myocardial infarction and myocardial ischaemia.
- ECG changes of life-threatening arrhythmias.
- Diagnosis and pharmacological treatment of myocardial infarction and myocardial ischaemia.
- Non-pharmacological treatment of cardiac disease.
- Invasive treatment of myocardial infarction and myocardial ischaemia.
- Treatment of life-threatening arrhythmias.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 1 | Outcome Plan and perform a resting ECG in a range of patients in a variety of clinical settings, to current nationally accepted standards. |
| # 2 | Outcome Recognise normal and abnormal ECG results, particularly myocardial infarction and life-threatening arrhythmias. |