Why the study?
ECG can detect conditions causing pediatric cardiac arrest early to reduce morbidity and mortality, prompting an evaluation of pediatric residents' interpretation skills before and after an educational intervention.
Does an educational module improve the ability of first-year pediatric residents to correctly interpret ECGs?
Does an educational module improve the ability of first-year pediatric residents to correctly interpret ECGs?
An educational module significantly improved first-year pediatric residents' ability to make definitive electrocardiographic diagnoses.
ECG training may improve pediatric residents' diagnostic accuracy; leaves open impact on arrest outcomes.
The incidence of pediatric cardiac arrest is unknown; its main etiologies are congenital heart diseases, cardiomyopathies, and ventricular arrhythmias. An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a diagnostic method that may allow to detect them in an early manner and reduce morbidity and mortality. The objective of this study was to describe pediatric residents' skills to determine if an ECG was normal or abnormal and make an accurate electrocardiographic diagnosis before and after an educational intervention. First-year pediatric residents participated in this study. An assessment including 12 ECG tracings was done before and after an educational module, and scores were compared using the t-test for paired data. No differences were observed between both assessments regarding the interpretation of ECG as normal or abnormal (p: 0.42). However, a statistically significant difference was observed in definitive diagnoses (p < 0.002). Definitive electrocardiographic diagnoses improved after the implementation of an educational module.
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