Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the October 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Richard Body (Emergency Department, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK).

Read the primary survey: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/633.

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

The use of whole-body computed tomography in major trauma: variations in practice in UK trauma hospitals - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/647

Non-traumatic incidental findings in patients undergoing whole-body computed tomography at initial emergency admission - emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/643

Whole body computed tomography for trauma: friend or foe? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/635

Extreme event medicine: considerations for the organisation of out-of-hospital care during obstacle, adventure and endurance competitions http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/680

Ibuprofen versus placebo effect on acute kidney injury in ultramarathons: a randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/637

Gender, race and the presentation of acute coronary syndrome and serious cardiopulmonary diagnoses in ED patients with chest pain - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/653

Primary care services co-located with Emergency Departments across a UK region: early views on their development - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/10/672