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SECTION 1 LEARNING THE BASICS |
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2 | (10) |
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2 | (1) |
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2 | (1) |
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3 | (5) |
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The Heart Needs Its Wheaties™ Too |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (1) |
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12 | (7) |
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12 | (1) |
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12 | (1) |
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13 | (5) |
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18 | (1) |
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18 | (1) |
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19 | (16) |
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19 | (1) |
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Doing the Background Work |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (2) |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (5) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (1) |
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32 | (3) |
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Location, Location, Location |
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35 | (11) |
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35 | (1) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (1) |
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Lead and the Signal Will Follow |
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37 | (3) |
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Electrode Placement and Leads |
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40 | (1) |
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I Spy with My Little Lead |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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43 | (3) |
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SECTION 2 GETTING MORE TECHNICAL |
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The Shape of Things to Come |
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46 | (13) |
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46 | (1) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (5) |
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Waves, Complexes, Segments, and Intervals |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (1) |
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55 | (4) |
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Cars and Carts: From P-Wave to QRS Complex |
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59 | (13) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (2) |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (3) |
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Measuring the PR Interval |
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65 | (3) |
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68 | (1) |
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68 | (4) |
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The Intraventricular Superhighway |
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72 | (18) |
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72 | (1) |
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Traveling the Bundle Branch Routes |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (7) |
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Measuring Tools and Techniques |
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80 | (6) |
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86 | (1) |
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87 | (3) |
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90 | (6) |
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90 | (1) |
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90 | (3) |
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93 | (2) |
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95 | (1) |
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95 | (1) |
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96 | (10) |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (1) |
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96 | (2) |
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Fast, Slow, or Just Right? |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (4) |
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SECTION 3 MOVING TO THE RHYTHM |
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106 | (26) |
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106 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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Recognizing Sinus Rhythms |
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106 | (1) |
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Sinus Discharge Can Be a Good Thing |
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107 | (1) |
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107 | (3) |
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110 | (3) |
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113 | (1) |
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Sinus Arrest and Sinus Exit Block |
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114 | (3) |
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117 | (1) |
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117 | (15) |
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132 | (33) |
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132 | (1) |
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Atrial Rule: When Leadership Disagrees |
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132 | (1) |
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132 | (1) |
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A PAC Without the Politics |
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133 | (2) |
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135 | (1) |
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136 | (1) |
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Wandering Atrial Pacemaker |
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137 | (3) |
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Multifocal Atrial Tachycardia |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (6) |
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150 | (1) |
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151 | (14) |
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165 | (24) |
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165 | (1) |
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Who's Running the Government? |
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165 | (1) |
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The Supraventricular Jigsaw |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (2) |
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Junctional Rhythms in a Nutshell |
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169 | (1) |
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Premature Junctional Contraction |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (2) |
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Accelerated Junctional Rhythm |
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173 | (1) |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (2) |
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Supraventricular Tachycardia: An Easy Way Out |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (1) |
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178 | (11) |
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189 | (37) |
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189 | (1) |
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189 | (1) |
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From Highways to Back Roads |
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189 | (1) |
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190 | (1) |
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Premature Ventricular Contraction |
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191 | (3) |
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194 | (1) |
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Accelerated Idioventricular Rhythm |
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195 | (2) |
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197 | (1) |
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Treating Low Cardiac Output |
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198 | (1) |
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199 | (1) |
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Multifocal Ventricular Tachycardia |
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200 | (1) |
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201 | (1) |
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201 | (2) |
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203 | (6) |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (16) |
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SECTION 4 CONTEMPLATING CONDUCTION |
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The Mental Block of AV Blocks |
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226 | (20) |
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226 | (1) |
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Dissolving the Mental Block |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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228 | (1) |
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Second-Degree Block Type I (Wenckebach) |
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229 | (2) |
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Second-Degree Block Type II (Classic Second-Degree) |
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231 | (1) |
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232 | (3) |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (2) |
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238 | (1) |
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238 | (8) |
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Detours on the Intraventricular Highways |
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246 | (20) |
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246 | (1) |
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Frustration on the Highway |
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246 | (2) |
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Landmarks on the Long Way Home |
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248 | (3) |
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Tachycardias of the Fourth Kind |
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251 | (2) |
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253 | (3) |
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256 | (1) |
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If It's Yellow, Waddles, and Quacks, It's Probably V-Tach |
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256 | (2) |
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258 | (1) |
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258 | (8) |
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SECTION 5 TAKING ADVANCED LESSONS |
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Pacemakers: Keeping the Heart from Early Retirement |
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266 | (28) |
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266 | (1) |
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266 | (1) |
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Would Somebody Help Me Here? |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (1) |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (4) |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (3) |
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I Can Name that Pacemaker in Four Beats |
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280 | (4) |
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284 | (1) |
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285 | (9) |
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Some Artifacts Aren't Rare or Valuable |
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294 | (20) |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (1) |
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294 | (6) |
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300 | (2) |
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302 | (3) |
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Know What You're Dealing With |
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305 | (1) |
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306 | (1) |
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306 | (8) |
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Timing Really is Everything |
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314 | (14) |
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314 | (1) |
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314 | (1) |
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Measuring the QT Interval |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (2) |
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Pacemakers and the QT Interval |
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317 | (4) |
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321 | (3) |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (3) |
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Are There Really Three I's in MI? |
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328 | (19) |
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328 | (1) |
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328 | (1) |
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An Advanced Lesson in Plumbing |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (3) |
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332 | (2) |
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The Rise and Fall of the ST Segment |
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334 | (6) |
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Treating Myocardial Infarctions |
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340 | (3) |
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343 | (1) |
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344 | (3) |
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347 | (13) |
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347 | (1) |
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347 | (1) |
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Irregular Rhythms With P-Waves |
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347 | (2) |
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Artifact or Ventricular Tachycardia? |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (3) |
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Ventricular Fibrillation or Asystole? |
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354 | (1) |
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Antidisestablishmentarianism |
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354 | (3) |
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357 | (3) |
| Post Test Questions |
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360 | (67) |
| Post Test Answers |
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427 | (30) |
| Appendix 1: Heart Rate Tables |
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457 | (2) |
| Glossary |
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459 | (10) |
| Suggested Headings |
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469 | (1) |
| Answer Key |
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470 | (42) |
| Index |
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