Wide Complex Tachycardia Video Transcript:Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s Megacode review, we’re covering wide-complex tachycardias. What makes a wide-complex tachycardia different from a narrow-complex tachycardia? It’s the width of the QRS. The literature says that if the QRS width is greater than 0.12 seconds, it’s considered a wide-complex tachycardia. When in doubt, treat for […]
Narrow Complex Regular Tachycardia Video Hi. Welcome back. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video segment, we’re going to cover another Megacode algorithm. However, in this one our patient starts out in a narrow-complex tachycardia, so I want to take a few minutes and just review narrow-complex tachycardias. Remember, a tachycardia is any rhythm that has a […]
Narrow Complex Irregular Tachycardia Video Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s Megacode review, we’re going to cover narrow-complex irregular tachycardias because the treatment is different than that of regular narrow-complex tachycardias. Quick review: What makes a narrow-complex tachycardia a narrow-complex tachycardia? We’re looking at the width of the QRS complex. The width of the QRS should […]
Heart Blocks Review Video Transcript:Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video series, we’re going to talk about interpreting and recognizing heart blocks on your ECG tracing. First, let’s take a look at a regular cardiac complex, starting with the P wave. P waves should be rounded and upright, and a P wave denotes atrial depolarization […]
Fibrinolytic Therapy Checklist Video Hi. I’m Mark for ACLS Certification Institute. Welcome to another Rapid Algorithm Review. Today we’re reviewing the checklist for fibrinolytic therapy for acute coronary syndrome. All things being equal, most practitioners during an acute coronary event would probably prefer to take their patient to the cath lab rather than giving thrombolytics. I remember 20 […]
Drug Calculations Video Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. We’re going to begin today’s segment with a new segment we call ACLS Mailbox. Sometimes we get comments back, and we want to address a few of those in our video program. One comment from a viewer came back as, “Great video… Why did the presenter use […]
Basic Airway Management Video Transcript:Today we’re talking about basic airway management, staying with the fundamentals. What’s most important is checking your equipment. Make sure you’re prepared before the emergency happens. Make sure you check your equipment in the ER, your crash cart in your ambulance before you start your shift. Be ready to manage that airway before it […]
Atrial Drugs Review Video Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video, we’re talking about pharmacology, ACLS pharmacology, with an emphasis on atrial rhythms, medications that we use to treat atrial arrhythmias. It’s not uncommon that sometimes you’ll be looking up a drug, looking up the mechanism in PDR or Epocrates and it will say the […]
Arterial Blood Gases Review Video Hi. I’m Mark from ACLS Certification Institute. In today’s video series, we’re talking about arterial blood gases—how to look at and interpret an ABG. We’re going to look at the different components of the arterial blood gas and what they mean. Then we’re going to review the steps for looking at and interpreting systematically an […]
