Cardiac monitoring

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Hello,

I am starting critical care in a few weeks and I wanted to get a head start and I was wondering what is a good website to learn about cardiac monitoring? That will be a huge component of this class. Thanks in advance!

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Thank you! :)

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

You're welcome

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This is more of side note:

It seems you're preparing for Critical Care so....

I would recommend getting a head start in hemodynamic monitoring (CVP, PAP, PAWP, MAP) as this will definitely show up in ICU!

I would review cardiac anatomy (trace your blood flow) and understand the cardiac cycle (atrial depolarization/repolarization, ventricular dep/rep). You need to understand this before understand EKGs!

I loved ICU rotation and will miss it very much.

Enjoy this rotation :)

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I used the following website when I started my capstone in ICU and also as a new ICU nurse. There is great info on many critical care topics. Hope it helps you as much as it helped me!

http://www.icufaqs.org/

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Thanks Melissa! This is really helpful!

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I second icufaqs.org

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