Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the May 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by our Associate Editor, Caroline Leech.

Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/279

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

Editor's choice: Lack of efficacy in a randomised trial of a brief intervention to reduce drug use and increase drug treatment services utilisation among adult emergency department patients over a 12-month period - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/282

Absence of a quick fix does not mean ‘do nothing:’ time to address drug use in the ED - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/280

New decision formulas for predicting endotracheal tube depth in children: analysis of neck CT images - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/303

What is positionality and should it be expressed in quantitative studies? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/323

Modelling attending physician productivity in the emergency department: a multicentre study - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/317

Impact of emergency department surge and end of shift on patient workup and treatment prior to referral to internal medicine: a health records review - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/309

Comparison of epidemiology, treatments and outcomes of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction between young and elderly patients - emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/289

Image challenge: acute chest pain after tooth extraction

- emj.bmj.com/content/35/5/332