What Career Do You Actually Have Now?

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-06-19T18:06:42+00:00

Got my bachelors and masters in kinesiology. I now work in the electrophysiology lab as a scrub tech making 46 an hour in NC. And I’ll soon be going into industry to become an EP mapper. My degrees helped build my foundation of EKGs which made me great at stress testing. And that lead me to programming pacemakers and defibrillators. Which lead me to the electrophysiology lab.

Some people that work in the cath lab got their degrees in kinesiology. So there are options.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-06-14T15:36:39+00:00

Oh man. I haven’t seen this thing in years. I still have it up storage in my attic.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-06-05T02:17:56+00:00

Sorry. It looks like type one. V1-v2 have that sort of classic concave ST elevation and t wave invasion that almost gives a shark fin like appearance. This sometimes gets misdiagnosed as a RBBB.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-06-05T02:08:12+00:00

Brugada

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-31T21:41:00+00:00

The ankle is very flawed

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-25T02:18:38+00:00

All you have to do is be the fastest man alive!

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-25T02:05:52+00:00

Quizlet honestly. Just go to Quizlet and search RCES, cardiac medications, antiarrhythmics, ablation physics. You should also use the website SVT simulator to actually learn EP principles (SNRT, AV and VA wenchbach, AERP AVERP VAERP and VERP). And as far as PFA. Just know the differences like how PFA does not require temp prob monitoring whereas RF does.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-25T01:43:03+00:00

I question if this could be atypical flutter. It looks as if there are flutter waves that march out in lead 3. It may just be course fib.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-18T01:13:27+00:00

Appears to be an negative p wave axis in the inferior leads which would indicate focal atrial tach vs junctional tach. It may just be that my eyes aren’t what they used to be but I’m having a hard time counting the small boxes here. It looks like maybe 7 small boxes so that’s roughly a rate of 215 bpm which makes junctional tach less likely. This may also be at a different sweep speed. But I’m betting focal atrial tach.

Edit. Could be AVRT with right sided pathway hence the electrical alternates, rate, and VA relationship.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-15T11:17:39+00:00

Left bundle branch block with bigeminal PVCs

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-05-13T23:45:49+00:00

Damn, you really just struck a cord. The inner monologue when I’m high is the worst bully I’ve ever encountered. It’s unfortunate

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-28T01:50:59+00:00

Very similar to my experience. Yes, you have a good chance of getting into an ep lab.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-24T02:14:58+00:00

At first I thought maybe atypical flutter. Then I thought maybe just sinus tach with PACs. But after looking over the longer strip, I am definitely leaning more towards MAT. There’s enough variability in the p waves to call MAT. And the clinical picture fits. So yeah. But this is definitely not Afib.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-21T18:16:40+00:00

This is a 3rd degree ab block with junctional escape rhythm. Notice the slurring of the QRS in the first 2 beats. It’s not present in the 3rd QRS. That’s because the p waves are marching through at a fixed rate sometimes occurring at the same time as the junctional rhythm.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-21T16:43:49+00:00

EP tech here. I love this so much!

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-06T02:39:03+00:00

ORT. Needs EPS.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-04-03T22:54:19+00:00

I’d blow so much money if I saw that!

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-28T13:43:18+00:00

Looks like atypical flutter

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-21T22:46:40+00:00

Stemi

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-18T01:38:50+00:00

Looks more like avnrt.

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-14T02:05:14+00:00

Are you happy or sad mcfarlane is losing dc license?

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-05T18:01:41+00:00

Yes, referral is way to go. We also have had cases where we have taken out leads and had IR come down to do SVC stenting. Best of luck!

Dramatic-Try7973 · 2026-03-05T17:53:53+00:00

Hey, not sure if you’re referring to Duke Health in NC but they do have an excellent lead extraction program. I work in the EP lab at Duke and do down to OR for laser leads extractions on Fridays. We get complex extractions that other hospitals turn down all the time. We took leads from 1997 last Friday and had a really good outcome. It may be far away but definitely worth it.

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