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”…
ECG Quiz 033
August 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
A 54 year old man presents to your rural emergency department with chest pain. An initial ECG reveals an inferior STEMI. Fifteen minutes after receiving intravenous thrombolysis the following ECG is taken.
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
ECG Quiz 032
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A 50 year old man presents following an episode of palpitations and syncope.
LITFL Image DATABASE collection
July 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
We have just started the long process of cataloguing the LITFL image collection – currently standing at 120,000 prospectively consented images from the last 15 years.
