EMJ Podcast

February 2016’s Primary Survey

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

Tanzanian emergency medicine exchange

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.

How familiar are clinician team mates?

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

February 2015’s primary survey

Simon Carley, EMJ associate editor, talks you through the highlights of February's EMJ.
For all the content from the issue, see:
http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/2.toc

January 2015’s primary survey

Simon Carley, EMJ associate editor, talks you through the highlights of January's EMJ, including pulmonary embolism in pregnancy and the post partum period, the causes of suffering in the ED, and how to diagnose a patient by their facial expressions.
For all the content from the issue, see:
http://emj.bmj.com/content/32/1.toc
Listen to a podcast on diagnosis by face: http://goo.gl/0ackZw
Listen to a podcast on suffering in the ED: http://goo.gl/JhGa7P

December 2014’s primary survey

Simon Carley, EMJ associate editor, talks you through the highlights of December's EMJ, including crowding in the emergency department, sepsis treatment and capillary refill.
For all the content from the issue, see:
http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/12.toc

Not all suffering is pain

Provision of prompt, effective analgesia is rightly considered as a standard of care in the emergency department (ED). However, much suffering is not ‘painful’ and may be under-recognised. A recent paper in EMJ looked to describe the burden of suffering in the ED and explore how this may be best addressed from a patient centred perspective. Ellen Weber talks to lead author Richard Body, Emergency Department Research Office, Manchester Royal Infirmary, to hear what they found.Read the full paper:http://goo.gl/kjs0x9

DRC to Dar: one physician’s journey to emergency medicine

Dr Mundenga Mutendi Muller is a young doctor from Kindu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), currently training in the Emergency Medcine Residency at Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He was interviewed in Dar es Salaam by Ellen Weber, EMJ Editor. This is an excerpt of their conversation. An edit of the conversation is also available as a EMJ article: http://emj.bmj.com/content/31/8/611.full

Diagnosis by face

Clinicians use nonverbal cues from patients, including their facial expression content and variability, to make inferences about how ill a patient is. However the diagnostic accuracy of facial expressions as a method of physical diagnosis hasn't previously been scientifically examined.Research just published in EMJ is the first to examine this question, and provides proof of concept that patients with serious cardiopulmonary disease processes manifest facial expressions with decreased variability and emotional content than patients with no serious cardiopulmonary diagnosis. EMJ editor Ellen Weber discusses the findings with lead author Jeffrey Kline, professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine.Read the full paper: http://goo.gl/MFvaxC

Solving the crisis in emergency medicine

Cliff Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, discusses how the college and the HEE are going to tackle the five major challenges in emergency medicine.