Richard 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/35/3/135

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

Being a pioneer in emergency medicine - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/142

Emergency medicine research: how far have we come and where are we heading? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/149

How can emergency physicians harness the power of new technologies in clinical practice and education? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/156

Looking back and forward: emergency medicine in its 50th year - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/137

The feasibility of an interactive voice response system (IVRS) for monitoring patient safety after discharge from the ED - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/180

Understanding cardiac troponin part 2: early rule out of acute coronary syndrome - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/192

Ionised calcium levels in major trauma patients who received blood en route to a military medical treatment facility - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/176