Cardiology
The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.
Description
In this video, they cover the evaluation of the cardiac axis and when knowledge of the axis actually makes a difference to your patient’s care.
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Course Details
Course description
This no-nonsense course teaches all the ECG basics you need to take you from novice to ECG practitioner, or refresh your ECG skills in a matter of hours! Learn how to diagnose important structural heart problems like myocardial infarction, hypertrophy, and volume overload. This is the first course in a three-part series to build your ECG expertise!
24 Lessons
15 Quizzes
11.5 CME
Course Highlights
Atrial hypertrophy and low voltage
In this video, we review how to diagnose atrial hypertrophy and atrial enlargement on the ECG…some underrated skills that can come in handy in certain situations.
Have you ever seen pauses on the ECG? In this module, we’ll review when and why to worry…and how to keep your cool.
Medmastery
Online Education
Medmastery courses and workshops are fully CME accredited providing US (AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM) and European (ECMECs) CME credits. Members can download their CME certificates upon successful completion of activities. Register now for a free trial and check it out!

