2010年12月18日土曜日

ECG Seminar for young doctors

Today I attended a seminar for young doctors which focused on ECG.
This seminar is so nice, because every doctor is famous and teaches well, and we can watch this in several branched places.


Today's topic of the seminar was ECG presented by Dr. K.
He taught us the limitation of  ECG. As experts of pulmonary finds the difficulty of chest X-ray, Cardiologist knows the difficulty and limitation of ECG.


Take Home message is the following.
  • We should ask ourselves how useful to read ECG
  • Don't recognize from patterns of ECG. Compare to previous ECG, and read systemically
For me, most impression his episode was that Evidenced-based medicine (EBM) is useful for non-experienced staffs. This is because EBM is made for them to become full-fledged except for experience. This is why EBM is friendly for young staffs.
Therefore, many young doctors can work and make clinical decision on the authority of evidence.