Upcoming Medical Conferences in St Cloud

Basic Electrocardiography (ECG) Conference is organized by CentraCare Health and will be held from Dec 20 - 21, 2018 at CentraCare South Point, St Cloud, Minnesota, United States of America. The target audience for this medical event is nurses and health care professionals who need the theoretical information to support their clinical practice or desire increased knowledge to enhance current clinical practice. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 11.5 Contact Hours. Conference Description: This conference provides essential content for nurses practicing in a monitored setting. Material presented is based on the core curriculum published by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) and includes anatomy, physiology, pathology, and nursing and medical interventions for Basic ECG interpretation. Learning Outcome: Participants will successfully pass with 80% grade or better on the written ECG test after attending the educational activity. Learning Objectives: • Identify NSR (normal sinus rhythm), atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd-degree blocks, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation and ventricular standstill. • State when electrical intervention versus medical therapy is utilized and why. • Identify what actions to take when a patient experiences a rhythm change, based on the rhythm. • Identify the components of the heart’s conduction system. • Define the terms: depolarization, repolarization, lead, electrode, ectopy, pacemaker, electrocardiogram, capture, sensing. • State the correlation between the electrical (P, QRS, T) and the mechanical events of the heart. • State the effects of the autonomic nervous system on the heart. • State a systematic approach to rhythm analysis. • State basic understanding of pacemaker/ICD function.