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What is Ventricular Trigeminy? 🫀
Is it different from ventricular triplets? 🤔
Let's talk about it!
First, we need to know what a PVC is!
A PVC (a...
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Amiodarone is one of the more well-known cardiac medications carried in the prehospital setting.
ACLS recommends amiodarone for ventricular fibril...
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Although the general public may not know, EMS providers are trained as to what those little squiggly lines on the 12 lead actually indicate. It is...
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There are so many new things to learn when tackling cardiology in paramedic school. One of the first and most spoken about is STEMI identification....
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Damar Hamlin, Buffalo Bills football player, tragically collapsed during a game immediately after a blow to the chest. CPR and defibrillation is sa...
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Atrial Flutter (aka A flutter) is an abnormal cardiac 🫀 rhythm where the atria (top chambers of the heart) of the heart contracts faster than norm...
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Commotio Cordis is a rare phenomenon where a sudden hit or blow to the chest, typically over the heart 🫀, precipitates sudden cardiac death☠️. Comm...
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The most well-known and easily recognizable ectopic beat tends to be the premature ventricular contraction 🫀(that post will be for another day 🙂) ...
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What happens when the AV node is too clingy and wants to spend a little more time with the impulse than needed? A first degree heart block! 🩺
Let’s...
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When tackling cardiac pharmacology 💊 (Na, K, Ca channel blockers, etc.) it is vital to have a basic understanding of cardiac 🫀 action potential an...
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Fall is upon us! 🍁 For most this just means cooler weather and pumpkin spice drinks ☕️, but for first semester medic students this could mean intro...
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EMS students from the basic level to critical care level alike are taught the basics of the EKG including the P wave, QRS complex and T wave. But w...
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