Primary Survey - the highlights of December 2021

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the December 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/867

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

Evaluation of a state law on opioid-prescribing behaviour and the void affecting codeine-containing antitussive syrup - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/889

We Need to Talk About Codeine: an Implementation Study to reduce the number of Emergency Department patients discharged on high-strength co-codamol using the Behaviour Change Wheel - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/895

Feasibility and usefulness of rapid 2-channel-EEG-monitoring (point-of-care EEG) for acute CNS disorders in the paediatric emergency department: an observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/919

Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/923

Early warning scores to assess the probability of critical illness in patients with COVID-19 - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/901

Agreement and predictive value of the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale at emergency department triage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/868

Association of advanced age with intubation-related adverse events in the emergency department: a multicentre prospective observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/874

Improving outcomes for older people in the emergency department: a review of reviews - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/882

Identifying opportunities for health promotion and intervention in the ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/927