ECG Interpretation: What the Psychiatrist Needs to Know

ECG Interpretation: What the Psychiatrist Needs to Know is organized byInfomed Research & Training Limited and will be held on Sep 13, 2018 at Grange Holborn Hotel, London, England, United Kingdom. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 5 CPD points.

Course Description:
The course is in response to demand from psychiatrists in the last year or so. It provides an update on how to read ECGs –the basics and beyond– with a focus on ECG abnormalities that are highly relevant to the practice of the General Psychiatrist.

This course is NOT about how to take ECGs, but about interpreting them.

Sessions cover:
• Normal vs abnormal.
• Abnormalities that the General Psychiatrist will normally see (not rare abnormalities seen once in a blue moon).
• What the General Psychiatrist should not miss.
• Abnormal ECGs – clinical symptoms to look for, and key clinical questions to ask the patient. ECG abnormalities related to psychiatric medication.
• Abnormal ECG – expected outcomes and management, including medication management.
• What ECG is contraindication to psychotropic medication?
• A systematic approach to interpreting an ECG

The course is pitched at a level suitable for the Consultant working in General/Adult Psychiatry. Highly interactive lectures by Cardiologists very familiar with the questions asked by the General Psychiatrist, followed by workshops:
• cases - in the lectures and the workshops
• group work – exercises in ECG interpretation and reporting, putting into practice the techniques learned in the lectures, with immediate feedback from expert tutors
• opportunity to bring your own ECG’s for interpretation

About The Workshops
Attendees split into Groups under the guidance of the Cardiologists. In each Round:
• Each group looks at ECG cases is depth.
• The tutor goes through the first cases highlighting good practice.
• The Group then splits further into smaller sub-groups interpreting more cases, under the guidance of the tutor, then each sub-group reports its findings on the cases.

After the tea and coffee break, in Round 2 and Round 3, the Groups interpret a different set of ECG’s with one of the other tutors. Cases may include: Prolonged QT Interval; Sinus tachycardia; Atrial fibrillation; ST elevation and myocardial infarction; AV block; and Ectopics.