Introduction
In the rapidly changing medical environment, diagnostic procedures are becoming more and more sophisticated. Where once interpretation of lab values and cardiac activity were the sole territory of physicians and critical care nurses, it is now becoming almost mandatory for anyone involved in patient care to be able to recognize potentially life threatening situations.
In Radiology, it is becoming a standard of patient care for cardiac monitoring to be used, not only in Nuclear Medicine and Special Procedures, but now also in Diagnostic Imaging, MRI, and CT, as well as other special situations.
This course is not designed to teach intervention of life threatening dysrhythmias, but to familiarize the Radiology Technologist with the cardiac dysrhythmias that do require immediate intervention, and those that are not emergent or urgent.