Advanced Arrhythmia Interpretation:
AV Blocks and Pacing

June 10, 2011

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
SBCH, Burtness Auditorium

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This course is designed to increase your interpretive skills related to an expanded classification of AV blocks. Dual chamber pacemaker timing cycles, functions and problems specific to dual chamber pacing and rate adaptive pacing will be discussed. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with biventricular pacing will be covered. Practice tracings are used to explain concepts presented & to facilitate learning.  Please bring a caliper

Guest Speaker:  Carol Jacobson, RN, MN
Carol has over 30 years experience as a critical care nurse and nurse educator.  Carol is known nationally for her humorous and common-sense approach to teaching difficult topics and making them understandable.  She specializes in cardiac topics such as arrhythmias, 12 lead ECG interpretation, pacemakers, cardiovascular drugs, and hemodynamic monitoring. Carol is Director of Quality Education Services, Seattle, Washingtion.

Course Instructor & Coordinator:
Charleen Strebel, RN, MHA

Pre-requisite:  Sound knowledge of basic cardiac arrhythmias is  needed

Provider approved for 7.5 contact hours by the California Board of Nursing, Provider #00252.

Registration Instructions
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CHS Employees:
Register via HealthStream.  (Employee number is both User ID and Password; go to “Catalog”; select “Cardiac Monitoring”)  No charge to CHS employees.

CHS Travelers:
Register via HealthStream.  Forward check for $60 payment to Education Department.

NON-CHS Employees:
Complete registration form.  Forward check for $120 payment to Education Department.