How to Read an Electrocardiogram - Part 4

Once clinicians and students learn how to read electrocardiograms and have participated in foundational classes in Basic and Advanced CPR, they are ready to confront the enemy - deathCODE BLUE is the phrase everyone has become familiar with. The time when a patient's heart has either stopped or they have developed a rhythm that is life threatening. CARDIAC ARREST is the result of a rhythm that is no longer able to sustain life and when left untreated the patient will either sustain heart damage (MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION) or die. This book provides some real life examples of cardiac arrest rhythms and some of the treatments for those rhythms to provide some practice opportunities to help prepare you for such patients.