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 13 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 Leave a 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.
Posterior Myocardial infarction
September 21, 2011 By 1 Comment
VT or not VT? That is the question…
August 24, 2011 By 8 Comments
“VT or not VT? That is the question…” you muse. Then your patient Bill says “A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock”…
Calligraphitis
August 8, 2011 By 1 Comment
The LITFL team call upon the wider academic cardiological community to fund research into the under-diagnosed conditions of ‘calligraphitis’ or literary heart syndrome and the positive electropenogram
Super Axis Man
June 23, 2011 By 7 Comments
This one’s for our medical student friends… and anyone else fighting the axis of evil! Understanding axis is one of the keys to understanding ECGs. Super Axis Man (SAM) is here to help!
