Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
Emergency Medicine education blog
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 [...]
LITFL’s ‘American ER Doc Gone Walkabout’ Rick Abbott tells us about his personal adventures with ‘hands on’ defibrillation and cardioversion… Are you ready for CPR with no interruptions?
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.
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?
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…
Here’s another volume from LITFL’s ever growing ECG Library — all you need to know about the ECG diagnosis of right ventricular infarction.
“VT or not VT? That is the question…” you muse. Then your patient Bill says “A shock, a shock, my kingdom for a shock”…
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
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!
