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Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) is an international peer review journal covering pre-hospital and hospital emergency medicine, and critical care. The journal publishes original research, reviews and evidence based articles on resuscitation, major trauma, minor injuries, acute cardiology, acute paediatrics, toxicology, toxinology, disasters, medical imaging, audit, teaching and reflections on clinical practice. The journal is aimed at doctors, nurses, paramedics and ambulance staff.
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Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the June 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

Read the primary survey here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/407

Emergency medicine electronic health record usability: where to from here? (16 March, 2021) FREE Katie Walker, Tim Dwyer, Heather A Heaton: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/408 

Usability of electronic health record systems in UK EDs Editor's Choice (3 March, 2021) Benjamin Michael Bloom, Jason Pott, Stephen Thomas, David Ramon Gaunt, Thomas C Hughes: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/410 

Hypochloraemia is associated with 28-day mortality in patients with septic shock: a retrospective analysis of a multicentre prospective registry: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/423 

Emergency department attendances during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective analysis of attendances following Irish governmental pandemic measures: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/439 

Incidence of emergency calls and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from a cross-sectional study in a UK ambulance service: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/446 

Sex-related differences in opioid administration in the emergency department: a population-based study: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/6/467

Primary Survey - the highlights of June 2021

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.

A systematic mixed studies review of patient experiences in the ED https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/03/03/emermed-2020-210634 

To prescribe or not to prescribe for paediatric sore throat: A retrospective cohort study comparing clinician-led antibiotic prescriptions to FeverPAIN and Centor scoring in a tertiary Paediatric Emergency Department and a national review of practice. https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/14/emermed-2020-210786 

Early Prediction of Serious Infections in Febrile Infants Incorporating Heart Rate Variability in an Emergency Department: A Pilot Study https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/04/16/emermed-2020-210675 

Toddler’s Fracture Immobilisation (ToFI) Study - A Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing Immobilisation in Above Knee Plaster of Paris to Controlled Ankle Motion Boots in Undisplaced Paediatric Spiral Tibial Fractures https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/21/emermed-2020-210299.long 

Clinical benefits of prone positioning in the treatment of non-intubated patients with acute hypoxic respiratory failure: A rapid systematic review https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/22/emermed-2020-210586.long 

Prognostic accuracy of emergency department triage tools for adults with suspected COVID-19: The PRIEST observational cohort study https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/06/03/emermed-2020-210783 

Implementation of the ‘TAKE STOCK’ Hot Debrief Tool in the Emergency Department: A Quality Improvement Project. https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/13/emermed-2019-208830.info 

The Cardiac Arrest Nurse Leadership (CANLEAD) Trial: A simulation based Randomised Controlled Trial implementation of a new cardiac arrest role to facilitate cognitive offload for medical team leaders. https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2021/01/26/emermed-2019-209

Primary Survey - the highlights of August 2021

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the December 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/867
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Evaluation of a state law on opioid-prescribing behaviour and the void affecting codeine-containing antitussive syrup - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/889
We Need to Talk About Codeine: an Implementation Study to reduce the number of Emergency Department patients discharged on high-strength co-codamol using the Behaviour Change Wheel - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/895
Feasibility and usefulness of rapid 2-channel-EEG-monitoring (point-of-care EEG) for acute CNS disorders in the paediatric emergency department: an observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/919
Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/923
Early warning scores to assess the probability of critical illness in patients with COVID-19 - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/901
Agreement and predictive value of the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale at emergency department triage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/868
Association of advanced age with intubation-related adverse events in the emergency department: a multicentre prospective observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/874
Improving outcomes for older people in the emergency department: a review of reviews - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/882
Identifying opportunities for health promotion and intervention in the ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/927

Primary Survey - the highlights of December 2021

Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the highlights of the January 2022 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/1
Details of the papers mentioned in the podcast:
Frequent attendance at the emergency department shows typical features of complex systems: analysis of multicentre linked data: 
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/3

Heterogeneity of reasons for attendance in frequent attenders of emergency departments and its relationship to future attendance:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/10

Non-urgent emergency department attendances in children: a retrospective observational analysis:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/17

How much time do doctors spend providing care to each child in the ED? A time and motion study:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/23

Evidence base for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) for diagnosis of skull fractures in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/30

Prehospital continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for acute respiratory distress: a randomised controlled trial:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/37

Effects of sleepiness on clinical decision making among paramedic students: a simulated night shift study:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/45

Incidence and impact of incivility in paramedicine: a qualitative study:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/52

COVID-19 rapid diagnostics: practice review:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/1/70

Primary Survey - the January 2022 issue in 30 minutes!

Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the highlights of the February edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/2/85.
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the February 2022 issue in just over 30 minutes!

Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the highlights of the March 2022 edition of the EMJ. We've picked out some of the hottest, most controversial papers from this month's episodes and we're privileged to have the thoughts of the EMJ Editor in Chief, Ellen Weber. 
We'll discuss hot issues from the association between exit block and mortality, the 4-hour target, the prognostic importance of admitting patients to outlying wards, decision aids for traumatic brain injury and to predict hospital admission [is doctor better than computer at deciding who needs admission?] and lung ultrasound for COVID-19.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/3/165
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the EMJ Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emj-podcast/id445358244). 
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Primary Survey -  the highlights of March 2022, including MUST READ papers on ED exit block

Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, and Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, talk through the very best of the Emergency Medicine Journal with most of the papers we published in April 2022. We cover everything from sepsis and qSOFA scoring to how to manage traumatic pneumothoraces and how to recognise cervical spine injuries. We even look at the problem we have with convenience sampling in Emergency Medicine clinical research studies. Do we need to make big changes? Have a listen and find out!
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/4/269
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Primary Survey -  the highlights of April 2022 in 30 minutes!

This month we have a feast of studies looking at cardiac arrest. Want to know if one-handed CPR is any good for multi-tasking pre-hospital responders? You'll find out if you listen. Want to know if pre-hospital ECMO should be a thing for elite athletes at major events? We cover that too. Want to know if machine learning is about to revolutionise our practice and solve all our crowding problems? It's all here. And more. Take a listen and keep yourself at the cutting edge!
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/5/343
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Primary Survey - the highlights of May 2022

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in July 2022. 
They cover some important topics including ED crowding, telephone triage, unrecognised endobroncheal intubation, acute coronary syndromes and pre-hospital trauma.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/7/491
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Primary Survey - the highlights of July 2022

Sarah Edwards, Social Media Editor of EMJ, and Rick Body, Deputy Editor of EMJ, take you through the best of the Emergency Medicine Journal in August 2022, covering topics from COVID-19 to triage to community Emergency Medicine to complications of emergency intubation in children and survival rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/8/567, and the complete issue: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/8.
If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the EMJ Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emj-podcast/id445358244).

Primary Survey - the highlights of August 2022

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.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of September 2022

The best of our October 2022 issue, covering a superb qualitative study exploring the experience of older adults in the Emergency Medicine Journal with a wonderful accompanying editorial; a look at variation in practice for treating pre-orbital and orbital cellulitis in children; the association between anticoagulation and mortality in major trauma; point of care testing for tetanus immunity and more.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/10/723
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of October 2022

A selection of the best papers from our November 2022 edition. Rick and Sarah take you through five great papers discussing headache, subarachnoid haemorrhage, pre-hospital births, how to mitigate emergency physician stress in resuscitation and pathways for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/11/799.
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of November 2022

A selection of the best papers from our December 2022, picked apart and distilled for you by Rick Body and Sarah Edwards. In this festive issue we cover anaesthesia for paediatric forearm fractures, ultrasound diagnosis of acute appendicitis, a deep dive into the predictive value of vital signs, clinical judgement versus early warning scores, pulmonary embolism and... Do you know what calibration drift is? If not, listen and you'll find out!
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/39/12/881.
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of December 2022

A rundown of some of the best papers we published in the January 2023 edition of the journal. We cover an excellent practice review on the management of pulmonary embolism, going through some of the great pearls of wisdom relevant to our practice. How do you risk stratify patients with PE? What do you treat them with and how do you decide, especially when there are special considerations? When should you use thrombolysis? We cover a national survey of practice for prophyalxis of venous thromboembolism in patients who need lower limb immobilisation, we look at ambulance service configuration (should we have more rapid response vehicles?), we look at the outcomes of children who received 999 ambulance responses but weren't transported to hospital, and we look at whether vitamin D deficiency predicts outcome for patients with severe sepsis.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/1/1.
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
If you enjoy our podcast, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the EMJ Podcast iTunes page (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emj-podcast/id445358244). 
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Primary Survey - the highlights of January 2023

The best of the papers from our February 2023 issue, covered by Sarah Edwards and Rick Body. This month we cover great papers on COVID-19 and wellbeing, domestic violence and the diagnosis of testicular torsion.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/2/83.
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of February 2023

A summary of some of the best papers we published in the March 2023 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. EMJ's deputy editor Rick Body and social media editor Sarah Edwards talk through topics including biomarkers of traumatic brain injury, the limping child, hypothermia and sepsis in infants and the importance of avoiding secondary insults in patients intubated for traumatic brain injury in the prehospital environment.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/3/157
You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of March 2023

A summary of some of the best paper we published in the April 2023 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Rick and Sarah talk through topics including the impact of emergency physician gender on the outcomes of patients with early pregnancy loss; major trauma centre care for patients with low velocity trauma; the development of a new checklist for emergency paediatric intubation; the effect of head-up position on intubation success in the Emergency Department; and spiking by injection in the ED. One great feature of this month's papers is that there is so much that's immediately relevant to our clinical practice.
Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/4/239
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Primary Survey - the highlights of April 2023

Rick Body, University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, and Sarah Edwards, University Hospitals of Derby NHS Foundation Trust, cover the pick of the papers from EMJ's May 2023 issue. In this edition, we cover papers on shoulder dislocation, blunt chest trauma, uterine bleeding, medical errors, benign paroxysmal position vertigo, and calcium and QTc interval.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/5/317

You can subscribe to the EMJ podcast via all podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify, to get the latest podcast every month.
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Primary Survey - the highlights of May 2023

A summary of some of the best paper we published in the June 2023 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Rick and Sarah talk through topics including home pulse oximetry, out of hospital cardiac arrest, the perils of correctly calculating respiratory rate in the ED and even cross-cultural adaptation of patient communication material.

Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/40/6/393

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