ECG Basics:
This multimedia interactive courseware training CD-ROM can be used for individual self paced instruction, small and large group presentations, laboratory review or training, or as a resource for your own educational program. It comes with numerous educational/training videos and animation's, usable resources for presentation programs, interactive questions, and 2 documented and recordable exams. This program is full of information on subjects including anatomy and physiology of the heart, understanding and performing an ECG and its components, cardiovascular diseases and medications, continuous monitoring, normal and abnormal rhythms, cardiac emergencies, and diagnostic tests. Educators and students for any of the following programs will find ECG Basics a valuable resource and training tool: Medical Assistants, Monitor Technicians, Nursing Assistants, ECG technicians, Emergency Health Care Personnel, Patient Care Technicians, Multi-skilled Employees, Unlicensed Assistive personnel, Licensed vocational nurses, Licensed practical nurses, and Registered nurses. Pricing Info.

Contents/Topics

  • Introduction
  • The heart Cardiac Cycle
  • Conduction System
  • Indications
  • Equipment
  • Landmarks
  • Procedures
  • Safety
  • Patient & Preparation
  • Troubleshooting
  • Reporting
  • Special Conditions
  • Diseases
  • Medications
  • Diagnostics
  • Monitoring
  • Rhythms
  • Emergencies

Instructor's Resource Guide "ECG Basics"

Designed to be used with the CD-ROM software program "ECG BASICS" This instructor's resource guide is a complete notebook with everything you will need to teach the heart and electrocardiography. Materials can be used as handouts, transparency masters, or slides for your classroom presentations. The guide contains: instructor's tips for use, reproducible masters of screen captured information, additional charts and transparency masters, printed text and charts from the entire CD, complete glossary with printed definitions, hard copies of the examination and interactive questions, PowerPoint slide presentation, and clipart (.bmp) files for use in any presentation program. This resource guide comes with the purchase of the ECG CD-ROM!

System requirements:

486/66 MHz or faster, 8 meg of ram for Win 3.1 or 16 for Win 95. 2x CD-ROM or faster. Display of 256 colors (8 bit) or more. Sound system for 8 bit audio. This program is designed for NT 4.0, Win 98/95.