Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/461

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

Fluid therapy in the emergency department: an expert practice review - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/511

Intravenous cefazolin plus oral probenecid versus oral cephalexin for the treatment of skin and soft tissue infections: a double-blind, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/492

Efficacy of scheduled return visits for emergency department patients with non-specific abdominal pain - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/499

Application of outpatient cardiac testing among emergency department patients with syncope - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/486

Diagnostic yield of an ambulatory patch monitor in patients with unexplained syncope after initial evaluation in the emergency department: the PATCH-ED study - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/477

Prehospital neurological deterioration in stroke - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/507

Development and validation of an admission prediction tool for emergency departments in the Netherlands - emj.bmj.com/content/35/8/464

Read the full August 2018 issue of EMJ here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/35/8