This podcast from the International Emergency Medicine Education Project focuses on cardiac monitoring in emergency settings. It details the uses, limitations, and interpretation of continuous cardiac monitoring, contrasting it with 12-lead electrocardiograms. The text highlights the American Heart Association's guidelines for appropriate use, emphasizing risk stratification and the importance of avoiding alarm fatigue. Finally, it includes a case study illustrating the application of these principles in a patient with hyperkalemia.

Cardiac Monitoring (2024)

This playlist consists of four topics which every medical student should know about the specialty of Emergency Medicine. You can find these titles in iem-student.com website too.

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International Emergency Medicine Education Project is an international project aiming to promote Emergency Medicine and provide free educational resources for medical students/interns and medical teachers/educators. The audio podcast is one of the components of the project to increase accessibility to the content provided by international contributors. The content of this project is freely available in iBook, pdf, eBook, website (iem-student.org)and audio formats for every medical trainee in the world. We support free open access medical education (FOAM). All materials are free to use, download and share.

Cardiac Monitoring (2024)

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