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- Primary Survey: the highlights of June 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the June 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by Associate Editor, Edward Carlton.Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/341Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:Editor's choice: Comparison of qSOFA with current emergency department tools for screening of patients with sepsis for critical illness - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/350Editor's choice: qSOFA, SIRS and NEWS for predicting inhospital mortality and ICU admission in emergency admissions treated as sepsis - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/345Editor's choice: Sepsis-3 and simple rules - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/343MRSA nares swab is a more accurate predictor of MRSA wound infection compared with clinical risk factors in emergency department patients with skin and soft tissue infections - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/357Outpatient management of children at low risk for bacterial meningitis - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/361Gender and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a New Zealand registry study - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/367Inter-rater and intrarater reliability of the South African Triage Scale in low-resource settings of Haiti and Afghanistan - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/379Validity of the Japan Acuity and Triage Scale in adults: a cohort study - emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/384Marauding terrorist attack (MTA): prehospital considerations -emj.bmj.com/content/35/6/389Read the full June issue of EMJ here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/610 min
- Primary Survey: the highlights of May 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the May 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by our Associate Editor, Caroline Leech.Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/279Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:Editor's choice: Lack of efficacy in a randomised trial of a brief intervention to reduce drug use and increase drug treatment services utilisation among adult emergency department patients over a 12-month period - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/282Absence of a quick fix does not mean ‘do nothing:’ time to address drug use in the ED - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/280New decision formulas for predicting endotracheal tube depth in children: analysis of neck CT images - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/303What is positionality and should it be expressed in quantitative studies? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/323Modelling attending physician productivity in the emergency department: a multicentre study - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/317Impact of emergency department surge and end of shift on patient workup and treatment prior to referral to internal medicine: a health records review - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/309Comparison of epidemiology, treatments and outcomes of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction between young and elderly patients - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/289Image challenge: acute chest pain after tooth extraction- emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/332Read the full May issue of EMJ here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/35/513 min
- March 2018: celebrating 50 years of Emergency Medicine in the UKRichard Body, EMJ Deputy Editor, and Simon Carley, EMJ Associate Editor, talk through the highlights of the March 2018 edition of the journal, celebrating 50 years of the UK's Emergency Medicine.It is a special podcast presenting a collection of amazing articles that tell the story of where we have come from, where we are and where we are going. It's not all opinion though. We have some fantastic papers this month including an RCT on the use of ice to reduce the pain of laceration repair (Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/179).Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/135Details of the other papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:Being a pioneer in emergency medicine - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/142Emergency medicine research: how far have we come and where are we heading? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/149How can emergency physicians harness the power of new technologies in clinical practice and education? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/156Looking back and forward: emergency medicine in its 50th year - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/137The feasibility of an interactive voice response system (IVRS) for monitoring patient safety after discharge from the ED - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/180Understanding cardiac troponin part 2: early rule out of acute coronary syndrome - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/192Ionised calcium levels in major trauma patients who received blood en route to a military medical treatment facility - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/176Read the full March issue of EMJ here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/3.19 min
- Primary Survey: the highlights of February 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Simon himself.Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/73Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:Understanding cardiac troponin part 1: avoiding troponinitis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/120Calculating the proportion of avoidable attendances at UK emergency departments: analysis of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Sentinel Site Survey data -http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/114Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/108Pre-emptive ice cube cryotherapy for reducing pain from local anaesthetic injections for simple lacerations: a randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/103Use of the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio of heart rate variability to predict short-term deterioration in emergency department patients with sepsis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/96Utility of prehospital electrocardiogram characteristics as prognostic markers in out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity arrests - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/89A traumatic tale of two cities: does EMS level of care and transportation model affect survival in patients with trauma at level 1 trauma centres in two neighbouring Canadian provinces? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/83Managing alcohol-related attendances in emergency care: can diversion to bespoke services lessen the burden? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/79Alcohol identification and intervention in English emergency departments - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/75Taking control of alcohol-related emergency department visits - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/74Read the full February issue of EMJ here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/217 min
- Primary Survey: the highlights of January 2018Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the January 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Ellen Webber (Editor-in-Chief, University of California, San Francisco, USA).Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/1.Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:Impact of Physician Navigators on productivity indicators in the ED - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/5Tackling the demand for emergency department services: there are no silver bullets - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/3Emergency consultants value medical scribes and most prefer to work with them, a few would rather not: a qualitative Australian study - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/12Can an observational pain assessment tool improve time to analgesia for cognitively impaired older persons? A cluster randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/33Failure of falls risk screening tools to predict outcome: a prospective cohort study - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/28PREDICT prioritisation study: establishing the research priorities of paediatric emergency medicine physicians in Australia and New Zealand - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/39Profile and outcomes of critically ill children in a lower middle-income country - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/52Characteristics of youth agreeing to electronic sexually transmitted infection risk assessment in the emergency department - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/46Waveform capnography: an alternative to physician gestalt in determining optimal intubating conditions after administration of paralytic agents - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/1/62Read the full January issue of EMJ here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/116 min
- Primary Survey: the highlights of the October 2017 issue of the Emergency Medicine JournalSimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the October 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Richard Body (Emergency Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK).Read the primary survey: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/633.Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:The use of whole-body computed tomography in major trauma: variations in practice in UK trauma hospitals - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/647Non-traumatic incidental findings in patients undergoing whole-body computed tomography at initial emergency admission - emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/643Whole body computed tomography for trauma: friend or foe? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/635Extreme event medicine: considerations for the organisation of out-of-hospital care during obstacle, adventure and endurance competitions http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/680Ibuprofen versus placebo effect on acute kidney injury in ultramarathons: a randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/637Gender, race and the presentation of acute coronary syndrome and serious cardiopulmonary diagnoses in ED patients with chest pain - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/653Primary care services co-located with Emergency Departments across a UK region: early views on their development - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/672Read the full October issue of EMJ: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10.8 min
- August 2017's Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/491Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:Clinical relevance of pharmacist intervention in an emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/495Developing a decision rule to optimise clinical pharmacist resources for medication reconciliation in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/502Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/492‘Major trauma’: now two separate diseases? - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/494Traumatic brain injuries in older adults—6 years of data for one UK trauma centre: retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/509Validating the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) and Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS) rules for the prediction of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/517A practical approach to Events Medicine provision - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/538BET 1: Lidocaine with propofol to reduce pain on injection - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/551.2BET 2: Poor evidence on whether teaching cognitive debiasing, or cognitive forcing strategies, lead to a reduction in errors attributable to cognition in emergency medicine students or doctors - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/553Read the full August issue here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/818 min
- July 2017's Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the July 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/427Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:The key to resilient individuals is to build resilient and adaptive systems - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/428Emergency medicine: what keeps me, what might lose me? A narrative study of consultant views in Wales - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/436The psychological health and well-being of emergency medicine consultants in the UK - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/430Satisfaction, burnout and intention to stay of emergency nurses in Shanghai - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/448Occupational stress in the ED: a systematic literature review - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/441Can a partnership between general practitioners and ambulance services reduce conveyance to emergency care? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/459Relationship between oxygen concentration and temperature in an exothermic warming device - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/472The barriers associated with emergency medical service use for acute coronary syndrome: the awareness and influence of an Australian public mass media campaign - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7/466Read the full July issue here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/7?current-issue=y13 min
- June 2017's Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the June 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, starting with T-MACS, ROC curves, the demand for mental health care in emergency medicine, pain scales for children and more.Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/347Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS) decision aid: single biomarker re-derivation and external validation in three cohorts - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/349What is an ROC curve? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/357A systematic review of management strategies for children’s mental health care in the emergency department: update on evidence and recommendations for clinical practice and research - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/376The Royal College of Emergency Medicine composite pain scale for children: level of inter-rater agreement - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/360Emergency department syndromic surveillance to investigate the health impact and factors associated with alcohol intoxication in Reunion Island - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/386Violence-related ambulance call-outs in the North West of England: a cross-sectional analysis of nature, extent and relationships to temporal, celebratory and sporting events - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6/364Read the full June issue here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/6?current-issue=y11 min
- May 2017's Primary SurveySimon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the May 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, starting with pregnancy problems: the management of severely injured or ill pregnant patients.Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/271.Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below:Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: faculty of prehospital care consensus guidelines -http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/318;Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy/perimortem caesarean section - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/326;Does end-tidal capnography confirm tracheal intubation in fresh-frozen cadavers? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/315;Remifentanil for procedural sedation: a systematic review of the literature - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/294;The role of reduced heart rate volatility in predicting disposition from the emergency department - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/289;Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation probably good, but adoption should not be too fast and furious! - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/275;Emergency extracorporeal life support and ongoing resuscitation: a retrospective comparison for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest -http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/277;Progressive prediction of hospitalisation in the emergency department: uncovering hidden patterns to improve patient flow - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/308.13 min
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Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) is an international peer review journal covering pre-hospital and hospital emergency medicine, and critical care. The journal publishes original research, reviews and evidence based articles on resuscitation, major trauma, minor injuries, acute cardiology, acute paediatrics, toxicology, toxinology, disasters, medical imaging, audit, teaching and reflections on clinical practice. The journal is aimed at doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance staff.
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