A summary of some of the best paper we published in the April 2023 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Rick and Sarah talk through topics including the impact of emergency physician gender on the outcomes of patients with early pregnancy loss; major trauma centre care for patients with low velocity trauma; the development of a new checklist for emergency paediatric intubation; the effect of head-up position on intubation success in the Emergency Department; and spiking by injection in the ED. One great feature of this month's papers is that there is so much that's immediately relevant to our clinical practice.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/4/239

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A summary of some of the best papers we published in the March 2023 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. EMJ's deputy editor Rick Body and social media editor Sarah Edwards talk through topics including biomarkers of traumatic brain injury, the limping child, hypothermia and sepsis in infants and the importance of avoiding secondary insults in patients intubated for traumatic brain injury in the prehospital environment.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/3/157

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The best of the papers from our February 2023 issue, covered by Sarah Edwards and Rick Body. This month we cover great papers on COVID-19 and wellbeing, domestic violence and the diagnosis of testicular torsion.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/2/83.

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A rundown of some of the best papers we published in the January 2023 edition of the journal. We cover an excellent practice review on the management of pulmonary embolism, going through some of the great pearls of wisdom relevant to our practice. How do you risk stratify patients with PE? What do you treat them with and how do you decide, especially when there are special considerations? When should you use thrombolysis? We cover a national survey of practice for prophyalxis of venous thromboembolism in patients who need lower limb immobilisation, we look at ambulance service configuration (should we have more rapid response vehicles?), we look at the outcomes of children who received 999 ambulance responses but weren't transported to hospital, and we look at whether vitamin D deficiency predicts outcome for patients with severe sepsis.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/1/1.

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A selection of the best papers from our December 2022, picked apart and distilled for you by Rick Body and Sarah Edwards. In this festive issue we cover anaesthesia for paediatric forearm fractures, ultrasound diagnosis of acute appendicitis, a deep dive into the predictive value of vital signs, clinical judgement versus early warning scores, pulmonary embolism and... Do you know what calibration drift is? If not, listen and you'll find out!

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/12/881.

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A selection of the best papers from our November 2022 edition. Rick and Sarah take you through five great papers discussing headache, subarachnoid haemorrhage, pre-hospital births, how to mitigate emergency physician stress in resuscitation and pathways for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/11/799.

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The best of our October 2022 issue, covering a superb qualitative study exploring the experience of older adults in the Emergency Medicine Journal with a wonderful accompanying editorial; a look at variation in practice for treating pre-orbital and orbital cellulitis in children; the association between anticoagulation and mortality in major trauma; point of care testing for tetanus immunity and more.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/10/723

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Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, give an overview of the best of the September issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. They cover a plethora of clinically relevant papers. There's a terrific non-inferiority trial looking at the use of non-sterile gloves to repair traumatic wounds in the Emergency Department, two great papers that look at whether we might avoid x-ray for patients with suspected shoulder dislocation (one involving ultrasound), a fascinating paper involving the pre-hospital use of echocardiography and point of care troponin testing for patients with chest pain and more.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/9/647, and the complete issue: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/9.

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in August 2022, covering topics from COVID-19 to triage to community Emergency Medicine to complications of emergency intubation in children and survival rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/8/567, and the complete issue: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/8.

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in July 2022.

They cover some important topics including ED crowding, telephone triage, unrecognised endobroncheal intubation, acute coronary syndromes and pre-hospital trauma.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/7/491