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Cardiac Catheterisation & Cardiac Pacing
Two-day course is intended to enable practitioners to develop the essential patient management skills necessary to identify and manage the care of the patient requiring Cardiac Catheterisation and Cardiac Pacing.
Course Content
Cardiac Catheterisation
Indications and contraindications; complications and associated risk
Cardiac catheters & pressure transducers
Left heart
Catheterisation procedures
Ventriculography and aortography
Pressure measurements and recording technique
Coronary angiography & Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA)
Right heart
Catheterisation procedures
Pressure measurements and recording technique
Measuring Oxygen saturation.
Measurement of cardiac output
Clinical case studies
Review of the cardiac conduction system
Cardiac Pacing
Principles and indications for pacing
Temporary & permanent pacing procedure
Bipolar & Unipolar pacing
Pacing leads
Pacemaker system codes
Single chamber pacing and timing cycles
Determination of pacing threshold
Dual chamber pacing and timing cycles
Rate responsive pacing and chronotrophic incompetence
Mode switching. Potential complications
Biventricular pacing & ECG evaluation
Antitachycardia pacing
Clinical case studies
Patient management
Aims/Outcomes At the end of the course the practitioner will be able to:
- Plan appropriate care based on upon the risk associated with the presenting patient assessment
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Utilise a range of data gained from a variety of investigations to effectively manage the care of the patient
This course will be attended by
- Nurses
- Cardiac Physiologist
- Operating Department Practitioners
- Junior Doctors
- Radiographers
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