Academic institutions must incorporate programs to decrease barriers and work to achieve equitable representation of women in upper-level leadership positions. Moreover, academic medicine must evolve to cultivate a family-friendly environment that successfully supports both genders.
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CME Educational Objectives
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Describe the basic cardiophysiology of QT prolongation and how psychotropic medication can affect it.
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Understand the role that each class of drugs plays in the potential of QT prolongation.
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Apply the principles to clinical practice in order to assure patient safety.
Prolongation of QTC is an electrocardiographic finding indicating prolongation of cardiac repolarization, which increases the risk for torsades de pointes, a form of ventricular tachycardia that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
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