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EMJ Podcast
The Emergency Medicine Journal (EMJ) podcast is your premier source for the latest insights and developments in pre-hospital, hospital emergency medicine and critical care. Join the EMJ journal’s Deputy Editor and Social Media Editor each month as they discuss key highlights from the latest issue. EMJ - emj.bmj.com - is an international journal from the BMJ Group and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) covering developments and advances in emergency medicine and acute care. Stay informed with expert discussions and cutting-edge information by subscribing or listening on your favourite podcast platform. Podcast hosted by: Dr. Richard Body, EMJ Deputy Editor, University of Manchester, UK Dr. Sarah Edwards, EMJ Social Media Editor, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK
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Episodes
Friday Oct 14, 2016
Friday Oct 14, 2016
Simon Carley is on his own this time, talking through the highlights of the October 2016's EMJ. Among the highlights are the low number of women presenting at emergency medicine conferences, PERC rule, triage tools and paramedics' experiences of end-of-life care decisions.
The discussed papers:
"Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?",
"A retrospective analysis of the combined use of PERC rule and Wells score to exclude pulmonary embolism in the Emergency Department",
"One-two-triage: validation and reliability of a novel triage system for low-resource settings",
"Paramedics' experiences of end-of-life care decision making with regard to nursing home residents: an exploration of influential issues and factors".
Access the full issue here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10.toc.
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Wednesday Sep 21, 2016
Simon Carley and and Rick Body, EMJ associate editors, talk you through the highlights of the September 2016's EMJ.
Here are the links to the discussed papers:
Regional scale-up of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) training programme from a referral hospital to primary care health centres in Guatemala - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/611.abstract
What is the purpose of log roll examination in the unconscious adult trauma patient during trauma reception? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/632.abstract
Point-of-care lung ultrasound in young children with respiratory tract infections and wheeze - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/603.abstract
Perceived clinician–patient communication in the emergency department and subsequent post-traumatic stress symptoms in patients evaluated for acute coronary syndrome - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/626.full
Man or machine? An experimental study of prehospital emergency amputation - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/641.full
External validation of the emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic pathway (EDACS-ADP) - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/618.abstract
For all the content from the issue, see:
emj.bmj.com/content/33/9.toc
Thursday Sep 01, 2016
Thursday Sep 01, 2016
Simon Carley and and Richard Body, EMJ associate editors, talks you through the highlights of the August 2016's EMJ, including a retrospective cohort study which puts nurses vs. computer, by evaluating the accuracy of a Japanese triage algorithm (JTAS) and the debate around paediatric procedural sedation in the Emergency Department in the UK. This podcast also answers the question: how likely are doctors to be sued, based on their empathy with patients.
For all the content from the issue, see:
http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/8.toc
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
Thursday Jun 09, 2016
In this podcast Simon Carley discusses the highlights from June's issue with Mary Dawood, a consultant nurse in emergency medicine at Imperial College London.
Tuesday May 17, 2016
Tuesday May 17, 2016
In this podcast Simon Carley discusses the highlights from May's issue of EMJ.
Friday Apr 01, 2016
Friday Apr 01, 2016
In this podcast Simon Carley and Ellen Weber discuss the highlights from April's issue of EMJ focused on error.
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Wednesday Feb 24, 2016
Simon Carley and Rick Body, EMJ associate editors, talk you through the highlights of March's EMJ.
For all the content from the issue, see:
emj.bmj.com/content/33/3.toc#Primarysurvey
Tuesday Feb 09, 2016
Tuesday Feb 09, 2016
Simon Carley and Rick Body, EMJ associate editors, talk you through the highlights of February's EMJ.
For all the content from the issue, see:
http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/2.toc
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Thursday Jul 02, 2015
Dr Ellen Weber talks to Dr Renatus Tarimo and Dr Shahzma Suleman from Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. This interview takes place as they complete their six week obsevation visit at the emergency departments of UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco and they reflect on their visit and the differences in medical practice and education between the two countries.
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Wednesday Apr 15, 2015
Lack of familiarity between teammates is linked to worsened safety in high risk settings. The emergency department (ED) is a high risk healthcare setting where unfamiliar teams are created by diversity in clinician shift schedules and flexibility in clinician movement across the department. Dr Ellen Weber speaks to Dr Daniel Patterson about his research to characterise familiarity between clinician teammates in one urban teaching hospital ED over a 22 week study period.
Read the full paper: http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/4/258.full?sid=f47dc6b9-deef-4a61-a77a-342ea713262b