Primary Survey: the highlights of June 2020

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/321

Other links:

Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/330

Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/335

Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/332

Early versus delayed emergency department presentation following mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the presence of symptom at 1, 4 and 12 weeks in children - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/338

The CRASH3 study: prehospital TXA for every injured patient? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/392

Retrospective chart review of minor tibial fractures in preschoolers: immobilisation and complications - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/345

Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/351

Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/355

Prognostic accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA)-lactate criteria for mortality in adults with suspected bacterial infection in the emergency department of a hospital with limited resources - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/363

Evolution of methodology and reporting of emergency medicine quantitative research over a 20-year period - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/324

Academic emergency medicine in the UK - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/322

Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in adult trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/370

Successful endotracheal intubation following a failed first attempt during aeromedical retrieval - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/314.