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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 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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Thank you for listening!
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.
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).
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
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
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
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the April 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/249
Environmentally sustainable emergency medicine: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/315
When dispatcher assistance is not saving lives: assessment of process compliance, barriers and outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a metropolitan city in China: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/252
S100B protein level for the detection of clinically significant intracranial haemorrhage in patients with mild traumatic brain injury: a subanalysis of a prospective cohort study: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/285
Effect of tranexamic acid on intracranial haemorrhage and infarction in patients with traumatic brain injury: a pre-planned substudy in a sample of CRASH-3 trial patients: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/270
Synergistic effects of emergency physician empathy and burnout on patient satisfaction: a prospective observational study: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/290
Handheld electronic device use in patient care: the emergency department patient perspective—a cross-sectional survey: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4/258
Read the full Aprilissue here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/4
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the February 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/87
Post-exertion oxygen saturation as a prognostic factor for adverse outcome in patients attending the emergency department with suspected COVID-19: a substudy of the PRIEST observational cohort study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/88
Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound in COVID-19 https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/94
Rise and fall of the aerosol box; and what we must learn from the adoption of untested equipment https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/109
COVID-19 aerosol box as protection from droplet and aerosol contaminations in healthcare workers performing airway intubation: a randomised cross-over simulation study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/111
Evaluation of a novel approach to recognising community-acquired paediatric sepsis at ED triage by combining an electronic screening algorithm with clinician assessment https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/132
Nurse practitioner administered point-of-care ultrasound compared with X-ray for children with clinically non-angulated distal forearm fractures in the ED: a diagnostic study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/139
Emergency Medicine Journal COVID-19 monthly top five https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/158
Read the full February issue here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2