Live Wire
Where electricity becomes diagnosis, see the pattern, save the patient.
Live Wire begins where every confident clinician must begin - with normal. The architecture of the P Wave. The precision of the PR interval. The sharp lines of the QRS. The recovery of the T Wave. Rate. Rhythm. Axis. Intervals. Morphology. Not memorized, understood. Because when you truly know normal, the dangerous patterns do not hide. Each life threatening EKG is broken down through a structured clinical lens:
what you see
what it means physiologically
what you do next
Because an EKG is the electrical story of perfusion, conduction, ischemia, and collapse.
Designed for new acute care clinicians, hospitalists, and nurse practitioners, Live Wire builds fluency in rhythm interpretation in high stakes decision making. In acute care, electricity often fails before organs do. And the clinician who can read it, changes everything.
Holly Gaines, MD
Cardiovascular Disease