Pacemaker Essentials
Cardiology
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Description
This hands-on course takes the mystery out of pacemakers and gives clinicians a solid grounding in pacemaker therapy. You’ll learn how pacemakers work, what can be done in order to optimize a patient’s pacemaker therapy, and how to recognize and troubleshoot common problems. By the end, you’ll feel comfortable addressing the most common pacemaker issues without having a pacemaker expert at hand.
Course Details
64 Lessons
8 Quizzes
5 CME
Study the full course
Visit the Medmastery website to unlock the complete course and continue your learning journey.
Course Highlights
First up a review of pacemaker basics: the ‘hardware‘ differences between the 3 main types of pacemaker (single-chamber, dual-chamber, and biventricular pacemakers).
Common pacemaker issues: Failure to capture
Learn to recognize failure to capture, its causes, and how it is resolved (increasing output or lead resite).
Common pacemaker issues: Undersensing
Learn how to recognize failure to sense, its causes and how it is resolved (increasing sensitivity or lead re-site).
Common pacemaker issues: Oversensing
Learn to recognize oversensing, its causes and how it is resolved (through decreasing sensitivity or the use of alternate algorithms).
Learn to recognize failure to capture on an ECG or rhythm strip.