Cardiology Typing Practice
This page sets up the trainer with the cardiology pack: consult and clinic note lines, echo, EKG, cath and device reads, and cardiac drugs with their doses. Choose Cardiology in the Specialty menu or open a preset below, and the pack is mixed into the general clinical corpus as you type.
Open the trainer with the Cardiology pack
Consult day: HF, ACS and AF, shorthand on Echo, EKG and cath reads Clinic meds with doses, spelled out
Preset links open the trainer with those settings already applied; you can change them afterward.
What cardiology notes are made of
Cardiology typing comes from four places: inpatient consults and daily notes on telemetry and step-down units, clinic follow-ups for heart failure, coronary disease, atrial fibrillation and valve disease, procedure notes from the cath and EP labs, and reading-room reports for echo, EKG, stress tests, CT, MRI and device checks.
Most of that text is numbers attached to anatomy. Ejection fraction is written as a range, stenoses as a percent by vessel segment with TIMI flow, intervals in milliseconds, gradients in mmHg, and pacing thresholds in volts at a pulse width. Coronary anatomy is almost always abbreviated (LAD, LCx, RCA, OM1, PDA, SVG), and so are the diagnoses and procedures that recur every day: HFrEF, AF with RVR, DCCV, DAPT, GDMT. Scores such as CHA2DS2-VASc, HAS-BLED and RCRI mix letters, digits and punctuation in a way ordinary typing practice rarely does.
What the cardiology pack contains
The pack adds 1,086 cardiology items and gives extra weight to 961 cardiac terms and lines already in the general corpus. Almost half of the new items are note phrases (515), spread across HPI, exam, results, assessment, plan, procedure, discharge and nursing lines. Another 134 are report lines from echo, stress testing, CT and MRI, cath hemodynamics, EKG and device interrogations. The rest are single terms: staged diagnoses, anatomy, measurements and scores, procedures, exam signs, and generic and brand drugs, including newer agents such as mavacamten, aficamten and acoramidis.
A sample of lines from the pack:
- IV furosemide 80 mg bid, goal net negative 1.5 to 2 L daily
- Cath today: severe three-vessel CAD with 90% proximal LAD, 80% OM1, and 100% mid RCA
- Paroxysmal AF, CHA2DS2-VASc 4, HAS-BLED 2, currently in sinus rhythm
- Severely reduced LV systolic function, LVEF 15 to 20% by biplane Simpson method
- RA 14, RV 52/14, PA 52/26 with mean 36, PCWP 25, CO 4.1, CI 2.1, PVR 2.7 WU
- RV lead positioned in the mid septum: R wave 12 mV, threshold 0.6 V at 0.5 ms, impedance 640 ohms
Dosing strings cover 108 drugs and read the way orders do: metoprolol succinate 25 mg po daily, ticagrelor 180 mg po x1 loading dose, sacubitril-valsartan 49/51 mg po bid. Hemodynamic lines are kept internally consistent, so a PVR matches the pressures and cardiac output stated with it.
How to practice with the cardiology pack
With a specialty chosen, roughly half of the draws come from the pack and the rest from the general corpus. The category chips filter both, so turning on only Radiology & Path Findings gives you cardiology report lines mixed with general imaging and pathology findings. For consult and clinic practice, turn on Note Phrases, Radiology & Path Findings and the generic drug chip, and raise the dosing slider so drug names arrive with doses.
The Abbreviations toggle switches every pack phrase between its spelled-out and shorthand forms: "Continue anticoagulation for at least 4 weeks after cardioversion regardless of CHA2DS2-VASc" becomes "Cont AC for at least 4 wks post-DCCV regardless of CHA2DS2-VASc". Keep it on if you chart the way cardiologists write, and off if you transcribe dictated reports.
Use Block mode while you work on accuracy: the stream waits until you fix each mistake, which is where a mistyped percent or a dropped decimal gets caught. Switch to Cascade once accuracy holds, since it lets errors pass the way they would while charting live. Realistic term frequency keeps LVEF and LAD coming up often; Even brings rarer structural and device terms forward. Five to ten minutes on most days does more than one long session. AI Mode works on top of all of these settings, nothing needs an account, and your progress stays in your browser.
Common questions
Does the cardiology pack replace the general corpus?
No. Roughly half of the draws come from the pack and the rest from the general corpus, which already covers common cardiac drugs, EKG lines and heart failure phrases. The pack also gives extra weight to 961 of those existing items, so they come up more often.
Can I use this as a cardiology typing test?
Yes. The trainer reports words per minute and accuracy as you type, so a few minutes with the cardiology pack on gives you a reading on cardiac text. Repeat the same preset on different days to see whether you are getting faster.
Are the doses and values in the pack clinically reliable?
They follow standard drug labels and ACC/AHA and ESC guideline content, and were written to read like real orders and reports. They are there to be typed, not looked up: use a drug reference or your institution's protocols for clinical decisions.