Family Health - Week 7 Discussion 2nd REPLY

Edgar Gonzalez

The material in all of these different resources is excellent resources that I have now saved onto my computer as references. Reading EKGs has always been an area that I have sought to improve on. As I have spent the last two years working in an infectious disease office, I am not readily exposed to EKGs as when I worked in the inpatient setting. The resources on teachingmedicine.com helped me go back to basics, which helped me identify areas that I needed to brush up on and grasp a better understanding. I found that the origins of the activity section was very useful, with excellent explanations of the causes of different EKG abnormalities. Once I have an in-depth understanding of how processes work and how they translate into practice, or in this case, EKGs, I am able to remember them more easily. Once I know the how and the why I can simplify the explanation so that I can then explain it to my patients. The section on rhythm diagnostic criteria, in particular, helped me clarify heart blocks. I have seen them twice during my clinical, which the office's EKG machine helped identify. I worked with the strips with my preceptor, so this was very informative and allowed me to practice further identifying the rhythms.