Can you spot the “deliberate” mistake and solve the puzzle of this unusual ECG tracing?
Amal Mattu’s EKG Videos
September 10, 2012 by 1 Comment
A shout out for Amal Mattu’s EKG Videos blog on the occasion of it’s first blog-birthday, featuring one of the best 20 minute teaching sessions on ECG interpretation ever!
ROSC, hypotension and an ECG exigency
July 12, 2012 by 4 Comments
A patient has had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but thanks to great prehospital care has achieved ROSC. What does the ECG show? What do you need to do next?
ECG Academy
May 31, 2012 by 10 Comments
Here is the LITFL low down on elecrophysiologist Dr Nicholas Tullo’s impressive ECG Academy. This subscription-based educational resource is packed with video tutorials created by a master educator.
Wide, Complex and Troublesome
February 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
aka Cardiovascular Curveball 013 A junior colleague asks if he can discuss a case with you. His patient is a 23 year-old man who presents with 2 hours of rapid regular palpitations associated with ‘not feeling quite right’. These symptoms came on while he was running on a treadmill at his local gym. He has [...]
ECG ST Segment evaluation
January 1, 2012 by
The ST segment is the flat, isoelectric section of the ECG between the end of the S wave (the J point) and the beginning of the T wave. What are the causes of ST elevation or depression?
Ecgstasy!
December 21, 2011 by 1 Comment
It’s time for the LITFL team to highlight how awesome our ECG Library is… including some new additions and a page featuring Nick Tullo great ECG Academy videos.
Shock, syncope, sweating… and severe chest pain!
November 3, 2011 by 7 Comments
A 67-year old male is brought to hospital by ambulance with severe chest pain, sweating, vomiting and syncope. There is something deeply worrying on his ECG… Can you make the diagnosis that will save his life?
The power of social media leads to reversal
September 26, 2011 by 14 Comments
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…
Right Ventricular Infarction
September 23, 2011 by 1 Comment
Here’s another volume from LITFL’s ever growing ECG Library — all you need to know about the ECG diagnosis of right ventricular infarction.
