PPP011 - QT Prolongation with Dr Dawson Macleod
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Show Notes
Jane is joined by Dawson MacLeod, a specialist in poisons information from the Victorian Poisons Information Centre.
Jane talks to Dawson about:
· The cardiac QT interval and its clinical significance
· Risk factors for QT prolongation, particularly in the context of drug interactions
· The best way to monitor and calculate a corrected QT interval from an ECG
· Medicines of greatest concern for QT prolongation
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