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Digital Seminar

Everyday Excellence: Enhance Diagnostic Confidence with Advanced ECG & Chest X-Ray Interpretation


Speaker:
Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS
Duration:
6 Hours 20 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 05, 2025
Product Code:
POS078120
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

  • Master high-level 12-lead ECG patterns across a range of clinical scenarios
  • Mitigate chest x-ray errors with advanced interpretation techniques
  • Integrate evidence-based diagnostic guidelines
  • Sharpen clinical decision making and expand professional autonomy

Whether you’re working in primary care, urgent care, or acute settings, NPs, PAs, and RNs play a pivotal role in early recognition and management of critical conditions. Mastering diagnostic tools like the 12-lead ECG and chest x-ray is essential for accurate assessment, timely intervention, and improved patient outcomes.

Even experienced clinicians can find interpretation of these tools challenging. This high-impact, evidence-based one-day seminar will provide you with practical, actionable skills through real-world patient case studies and current best practice guidelines.

Key Findings You’ll Learn:

12-Lead ECG Interpretation

  • Myocardial infarction and ischemia
  • Arrhythmias
  • Bundle branch blocks
  • Electrolyte disturbances
  • Pericarditis and brugada syndrome
  • Cardiac hypertrophy
  • Long QT syndrome & more!

Chest X-Ray Interpretation

  • Pneumonia
  • Pneumothorax
  • Pleural effusion
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Mediastinal abnormalities & more!

Purchase today … and you’ll avoid common interpretation pitfalls, sharpen your ability to determine differential diagnoses, and plan precise patient treatments. Take your diagnostic practice to the next level – this training is an essential investment in your role as a clinician.

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



* Credit Note - **

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


* Credit Note - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by state and profession. 


Nurses - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists - ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses completing these self-study materials will earn 6.25 contact hours. Expires: 08/04/2028.


Nurses - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists

This self-study activity consists of 6.25 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Nurses - California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of  Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 6.0 self-study contact hours. 

** You will need to provide your license number to PESI. PESI must have this number on file in order for your hours to be valid.


Nurses - Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the Florida Board of  Nursing. Provider #: FBN2858. These materials qualify for 6.0 self-study contact hours.

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Physicians - Physicians

 

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This activity was originally recorded on 11/05/2025. It was last reviewed on 08/11/2025 and is valid until 08/11/2028. You are required to successfully complete and submit a post-test prior to receiving a certificate of completion.

PESI, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 


Physicians Assistants - Physician Assistants

AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME such as PESI. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 6.0 hours for completing this self-study program. This activity was originally recorded on 11/05/2025. It was last reviewed on 08/11/2025 and is valid until 08/11/2028

 

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. PESI, Inc. designates this enduring material for a maximum of 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



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Speaker

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS's Profile

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Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and provide participants with numerous case studies to facilitate critical thinking. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of infectious disease and multi-system organ failure patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationship with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Identify the anatomic location of a myocardial infarction using a 12 lead ECG 
  2. Differentiate the following conduction conditions on a 12 lead ECG: left- and right-bundle branch block as well as bifascicular block 
  3. Distinguish ECG changes from the following conditions: Brugada syndrome, Wellen’s syndrome, pericarditis and long-QT syndrome 
  4. Identify normal anatomic structures on a chest x-ray 
  5. Contrast the following traumatic conditions: pneumothorax, hemothorax and rib fractures on a chest x-ray
  6. Differentiate between the following conditions on a chest x-ray: pneumonia, pleural effusion, aortic aneurysm, empyema and tuberculosis

Outline

ECG Electrode Placement

  • 12 lead, right sided, and posterior wall ECG

Initial 12 lead Interpretation

  • Rate, rhythm, intervals
  • Wave morphology
  • Axis

Heart Blocks

  • Left and right bundle branch blocks
  • Incomplete heart blocks
  • Bifascicular blocks
  • Complete heart block

Axis Deviation and The Significance

  • Left and right axis deviation

Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction

  • Anterior wall
  • Lateral wall
  • Inferior wall
  • Posterior wall
  • Case studies

Ventricular Hypertrophy

  • Left ventricle
  • Right ventricle

Electrolyte Disturbances in 12 Lead Interpretation

  • Potassium
  • Calcium
  • Magnesium
  • Case studies

Clinical Conditions

  • Brugada syndrome
  • Wellen’s syndrome
  • Long QT syndrome
  • Pericarditis
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Case studies

Chest X-ray Imaging

  • X-ray vs CT vs MRI vs pulmonary angiography vs ultrasound
  • Posterior-anterior vs anterior-posterior view
  • Lateral view
  • Decubitus view

Systematic Approach to Chest X-ray Interpretation

  • Image quality
  • Normal chest x-ray (landmarks, variations from normal, incidental findings

Step-by-Step Assessment of Chest X-ray

  • Medical devices present (tubes, lines, pacemakers, VADs)
  • Airway (trachea alignment, carina)
  • Breathing (assess lung fields for density, lung markings)
  • Cardiac assessment (cardiac silhouette, enlargement, mediastinal conditions)
  • Diaphragm (diaphragm position, costophrenic angles)
  • Everything else (ribs, clavicle, unusual densities)

Associated Physical Assessment with Chest X-ray

  • Compare left and right lung fields
  • Clinical context
  • Pre- and post-operative assessment
  • Follow-up imaging (CT, MRI, pulmonary angiography)

Evaluating Pulmonary Conditions on X-ray

  • Chest trauma (pneumothorax, hemothorax, rib fractures)
  • Pneumonia
  • Pleural effusion
  • Pulmonary edema
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Tuberculosis
  • Aortic aneurysm
  • Foreign bodies
  • Diaphragmatic hernia
  • Sarcoidosis
  • Empyema
  • Case studies

Target Audience

  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses

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