Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, give an overview of the best of the September issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. They cover a plethora of clinically relevant papers. There's a terrific non-inferiority trial looking at the use of non-sterile gloves to repair traumatic wounds in the Emergency Department, two great papers that look at whether we might avoid x-ray for patients with suspected shoulder dislocation (one involving ultrasound), a fascinating paper involving the pre-hospital use of echocardiography and point of care troponin testing for patients with chest pain and more.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/9/647, and the complete issue: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/9.