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

Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/451

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

First responder communication in CBRN environments: FIRCOM-CBRN study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/456

Impact of emergency physician experience on decision-making in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia and undergoing systematic thoracic CT scan - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/485

Meta-analysis of the accuracy of termination of resuscitation rules for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/479

Potential added value of the new emergency care dataset to ED-based public health surveillance in England: an initial concept analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/459

Paracetamol versus other analgesia in adult patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/493

Recognising bias in studies of diagnostic tests part 2: interpreting and verifying the index test - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/501

Man versus machine: comparison of naked-eye estimation and quantified capillary refill - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/465