{"id":367,"date":"2014-05-05T06:21:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T06:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/?page_id=367"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:23:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:23:22","slug":"cardiac-pacemakers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/on-line-training\/cardiac-pacemakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac Pacemakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author :<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Stephen Cross &amp; Dr. Peter Clarkson, Consultant Cardiologists<\/p>\n<p><strong>Approximate learning time:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a01hr\u00a030min<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Overview:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0A permanent cardiac pacemaker is a small, implantable electronic device that is used to maintain sufficient heart rate when the hearts own natural, intrinsic pacemakers fail. Pacemakers are indicated for use in the treatment of symptomatic bradycardia. They control or replace the heart&#8217;s intrinsic electrical activity.<\/p>\n<p>Nurses and other healthcare professionals will encounter patients with cardiac pacemakers across a wide range of disciplines and this course aims to enhance their skills, knowledge and understanding of these devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course Objective:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0By the end of the course the student will be able to:<br \/>\n1. Describe the appearances of a normal ECG rhythm.<br \/>\n2. Understand and describe the indications for permanent cardiac pacemakers.<br \/>\n3. Describe the procedure for preparing a patient for permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation.<br \/>\n4. Understand pacemaker codes.<br \/>\n5. Identify pacemaker rhythm on an ECG.<br \/>\n6. Describe and identify common pacemaker malfunctions.<br \/>\n7. Offer a patient evidence based education regarding their cardiac pacemaker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author Biography:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Dr Stephen Cross and Dr Peter Clarkson. Both are consultant cardiologists; NHS Highland.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center; border-radius: 5px; background: #B4D333; padding: 5px; color: #797979; font-size: 25px; font-weight: 500;\"><a href=\"#popup-redirect\" style=\"color: #3C3B3B;\" data-href=\"http:\/\/online-training.cb-training.co.uk\/cbtlms\/lr_login.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"redirect-link fancybox\">Register Now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-align: center; border-radius: 5px; background: #B4D333; padding: 5px; color: #797979; font-size: 25px; font-weight: 500;\"><a style=\"color: #3c3b3b;\" title=\"On-line training\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/on-line-training\/\">Back to Online Course<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"popup-redirect\" style=\"width:300px; height:80px; display: none;\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author :\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Stephen Cross &amp; Dr. Peter Clarkson, Consultant Cardiologists Approximate learning time:\u00a0\u00a01hr\u00a030min Course Overview:\u00a0\u00a0A permanent cardiac pacemaker is a small, implantable electronic device that is used to maintain sufficient heart rate when the hearts own natural, intrinsic pacemakers fail. Pacemakers are indicated for use in the treatment of symptomatic bradycardia. They control or replace&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"taxonomy_info":[],"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"Cathy Boyle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/author\/c-boyle\/"},"comment_info":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/367\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veriti.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}