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Sometimes you have to stop and watch the world go by Take stock of where you are and revel in your insignificance Video from a Brooklyn Space Program weather balloon that rose into the upper stratosphere and recorded the blackness of space.

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Ok, Ok, relax. Your thirst for more funtabulously frivolous trivia on the arcana of the physical examination is about to be quenched. Fasten your seatbelts people, we’re about to launch into the 62nd edition of the FFFF!

Must multiple choice questions always be vexatious?

I have previously unceremoniously failed countless multiple choice examinations despite having enough knowledge on the subject to be dragged over the ‘pass line’ by scoring well in the corresponding written or viva section of the examination.

The power of social media leads to reversal

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A reader (Christopher Watford) recently contacted the LITFL team with a query regarding a Visual Aid Question (VAQ) from the first sitting of the 2007 examination. So the team set about investigating the validity of the query using the power of social media…

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The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.

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Sometimes you have to stop, and watch the world go by. Take stock of where you are, and revel in your insignificance

Right Ventricular Infarction

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Here’s another volume from LITFL’s ever growing ECG Library — all you need to know about the ECG diagnosis of right ventricular infarction.

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FFFF has been on a 3 month holiday. Now it’s back. You may note an emphasis on the arcana of the physical examination in the next few editions… Start revving your cerebral engines folks, here we go!

Posterior Myocardial infarction

Posterior infarction accompanies 15-20% of STEMIs, usually occurring in the context of an inferior or lateral infarction

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The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care.