• You might already be familiar with the basics of ECG interpretation. As with all of medicine, assuming you know everything is a recipe for disaster. In the Emergency department we have to make lots of quick decisions based on limited information, we use ECG’s to identify patients who need urgent review.
• Can you spot a posterior STEMI? What about Brugada syndrome? What does the ECG above show? (answer at the bottom of the page)
• Why not watch this SEMEP (Southampton Emergency Medical Education Project) video and complete some of the following links

Useful links to other resources

• Look at the Chest pain and ECG e-Learning page for more links
• The Life In The Fast Lane (LITFL) ECG Library (Free)
• Medical Student modules on  chest pain
• BMJ Learning  The ECG in patients with chest pain: diagnostic picture tests (registration required)
• Why not try our blog post on ECG’s not to miss

(ECG answer – Hypercalcaemia – don’t go sending this patient to the Cath Lab for PCI)