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EMJ Podcast
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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Episodes
Wednesday Sep 14, 2022
Wednesday Sep 14, 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.
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).
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 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).
Friday Aug 19, 2022
Friday Aug 19, 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
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).
Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
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
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).
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
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
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).
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
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
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Thursday Jan 20, 2022
Thursday Jan 20, 2022
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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Thank you for listening!
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
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
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 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
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 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