EMJ Podcast

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/321

Other links:

Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/330

Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/335

Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/332

Early versus delayed emergency department presentation following mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the presence of symptom at 1, 4 and 12 weeks in children - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/338

The CRASH3 study: prehospital TXA for every injured patient? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/392

Retrospective chart review of minor tibial fractures in preschoolers: immobilisation and complications - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/345

Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/351

Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/355

Prognostic accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA)-lactate criteria for mortality in adults with suspected bacterial infection in the emergency department of a hospital with limited resources - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/363

Evolution of methodology and reporting of emergency medicine quantitative research over a 20-year period - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/324

Academic emergency medicine in the UK - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/322

Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in adult trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/370

A bit later than usual, but here we are again!

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks with Professor Richard Body about the highlights of the May 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/249

Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:

SARS: experience from the emergency department, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore - emj.bmj.com/content/20/6/501

Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/265

End of life care in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/273

That was a game changer: clinical impact of an emergency department-based palliative care communication skills training workshop - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/262

Inter-rater reliability in a bespoke scoring tool: the Paediatric Observation Priority Score - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/293

Are referrals to hospital from out-of-hours primary care associated with National Early Warning Scores? - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/279

Glucose as an additional parameter to National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in prehospital setting enhances identification of patients at risk of death: an observational cohort study - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/286

Emergency medicine registrar training in Africa: overview of programmes, faculty and sustainability - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/300

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the April 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Our regular monthly round up of the best and the brightest in the April edition of the EMJ. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/177

Impact of emergency care centralisation on mortality and efficiency: a retrospective service evaluation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/180 Three into one does go - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/178

Emergency department visits during the 4/20 cannabis celebration - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/187 Routine alcohol screening in the ED: unscreened patients have an increased risk for hazardous alcohol use - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/206 Inadvertent tissue adhesive tarsorrhaphy of the eyelid: a review and exploratory trial of removal methods of Histoacryl - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/212 Performance of the MEDS score in predicting mortality among emergency department patients with a suspected infection: a meta-analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/232.

Dr. Khai Pin Lee and Dr. Gene Yong-Kwang Ong, from the Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, tell Editor-in-Chief of EMJ, Dr. Ellen Weber, how the novel coronavirus is changing their ED and the Singaporean society in general.

They are two of the authors of “Dynamic adaptation to COVID-19 in a Singapore paediatric emergency department”, a paper which will be published in the next few days by EMJ in the following address:

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the March 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/117.

Predicting abusive head trauma in children https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/118 Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/119 Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/127 Biological mechanisms and individual variation in fibrinolysis after major trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/135 Prehospital critical care is associated with increased survival in adult trauma patients in Scotland https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/141 Cranial burr holes in the emergency department: to drill or not to drill? https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/151 Cranial burr holes in the emergency department: to drill or not to drill? https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/154 Lessons from a pilot for uncontrolled donation after circulatory death in the ED in the UK https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/155 Non-invasive techniques for stimulating urine production in non-toilet trained children: a systematic review https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/162

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the February 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/55.

Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:

‘Stealth trauma’ in the young and the old: the next challenge for major trauma networks? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/56

Massive transfusion in The Netherlands - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/65 Blunt chest trauma in the elderly: an expert practice review - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/73

How can pain management in the emergency department be improved? Findings from multiple case study analysis of pain management in three UK emergency departments - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/85

The Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery Programme is the BMJ 2018 award winner for Emergency Medicine.

Dr David Raven, the National Course director for the HECTOR project and emergency medicine consultant at the Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber what makes this project unique.

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the January 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/1

Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:

Comparison of four decision aids for the early diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/8

The incidence of airway haemorrhage in manual versus mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/14

Epidemiology of adolescent trauma in England: a review of TARN data 2008–2017 -

https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/25

Blood Glucose Reduction in Patients Treated with Insulin and Dextrose for Hyperkalemia - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/31

No rest for the weary: A cross-sectional study comparing patients sleep in the emergency department to those on the ward https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/42

Thromboprophylaxis in Lower Limb Immobilisation after Injury (TiLLI) https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/36

Emergency Medicine: let’s feed the good wolf - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/52

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Patients don’t have language barriers; the healthcare system does - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/580

Observational study to understand interpreter service use in emergency medicine: why the key may lie outside of the initial provider assessment - Editor's Choice - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/582

Framing of clinical information affects physicians’ diagnostic accuracy - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/589

Impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/595

Diurnal, weekly and seasonal variations of chest pain in patients transported by emergency medical services - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/601

Pulmonary embolism following complex trauma: UK MTC observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/608

Adapting the Canadian CT head rule age criteria for mild traumatic brain injury - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/617

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the September 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/517

Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:

The Panoramic Dental Radiograph for Emergency Physicians - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/565

Exploring the characteristics, acuity and management of adult ED patients at night-time - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/554

Evaluation of the criteria for trauma activation in the paediatric emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/529

Why are people increasingly attending the emergency department? A study of the French healthcare system - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/548

Location of arrest and effect of prehospital advanced airway management after emergency medical service-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Nationwide observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/541

Phenomenological study exploring ethics in prehospital research from the paramedic’s perspective: experiences from the Paramedic-2 trial in a UK ambulance service - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/535

Process conformance is associated with successful first intubation attempt and lower odds of adverse events in a paediatric emergency setting - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/520

Triaging the triage: reducing waiting time to triage in the emergency department at a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, India - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/558