Simon 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/35/2/73

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

Understanding cardiac troponin part 1: avoiding troponinitis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/120

Calculating 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/35/2/114

Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/108

Pre-emptive ice cube cryotherapy for reducing pain from local anaesthetic injections for simple lacerations: a randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/103

Use 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/35/2/96

Utility of prehospital electrocardiogram characteristics as prognostic markers in out-of-hospital pulseless electrical activity arrests - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/89

A 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/35/2/83

Managing alcohol-related attendances in emergency care: can diversion to bespoke services lessen the burden? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/79

Alcohol identification and intervention in English emergency departments - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/75

Taking control of alcohol-related emergency department visits - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/74