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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
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
What has COVID-19 meant for emergency care, and what will have to change going forward? Dr Katherine Henderson, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and the Editor-in-Chief of EMJ, Ellen Weber, discuss the reconfiguration brought to hospitals because of the pandemic and the role of emergency medicine now and in the future. They also reflect on how the virus exposed health inequalities and linked with the Black Lives Matter movement.
Read the related editorial of the August issue:
https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/8/458.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the July 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/395
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Updated framework on quality and safety in emergency medicine - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/437
Evaluating the sustained effectiveness of a multimodal intervention aimed at influencing PIVC insertion practices in the emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/444
Endotracheal intubation with barrier protection - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/398
Aerosol containment box to the rescue: extra protection for the front line - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/400
Accuracy of PE rule-out strategies in pregnancy: secondary analysis of the DiPEP study prospective cohort - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/423
Oral nitroglycerin solution for oesophageal food impaction: a prospective single-arm pilot study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/434
Use of prehospital emergency medical services according to income of residential area - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/429
Using emergency physicians’ abilities to predict patient admission to decrease admission delay time - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7/417
Read the full July issue here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/7.
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Monday Jun 15, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/321
Other links:
Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/330
Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/335
Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/332
Early versus delayed emergency department presentation following mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the presence of symptom at 1, 4 and 12 weeks in children - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/338
The CRASH3 study: prehospital TXA for every injured patient? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/392
Retrospective chart review of minor tibial fractures in preschoolers: immobilisation and complications - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/345
Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/351
Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/355
Prognostic accuracy of the quick Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (qSOFA)-lactate criteria for mortality in adults with suspected bacterial infection in the emergency department of a hospital with limited resources - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/363
Evolution of methodology and reporting of emergency medicine quantitative research over a 20-year period - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/324
Academic emergency medicine in the UK - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/322
Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in adult trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/6/370
Successful endotracheal intubation following a failed first attempt during aeromedical retrieval - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/314.
Wednesday May 20, 2020
Wednesday May 20, 2020
A bit later than usual, but here we are again!
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks with Professor Richard Body about the highlights of the May 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/249
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
SARS: experience from the emergency department, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore - emj.bmj.com/content/20/6/501
Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/265
End of life care in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/273
That was a game changer: clinical impact of an emergency department-based palliative care communication skills training workshop - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/262
Inter-rater reliability in a bespoke scoring tool: the Paediatric Observation Priority Score - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/293
Are referrals to hospital from out-of-hours primary care associated with National Early Warning Scores? - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/279
Glucose as an additional parameter to National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in prehospital setting enhances identification of patients at risk of death: an observational cohort study - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/286
Emergency medicine registrar training in Africa: overview of programmes, faculty and sustainability - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/300
Read the full May issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the April 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Our regular monthly round up of the best and the brightest in the April edition of the EMJ. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/177
Impact of emergency care centralisation on mortality and efficiency: a retrospective service evaluation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/180 Three into one does go - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/178
Emergency department visits during the 4/20 cannabis celebration - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/187 Routine alcohol screening in the ED: unscreened patients have an increased risk for hazardous alcohol use - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/206 Inadvertent tissue adhesive tarsorrhaphy of the eyelid: a review and exploratory trial of removal methods of Histoacryl - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/212 Performance of the MEDS score in predicting mortality among emergency department patients with a suspected infection: a meta-analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/232.
Read the full April issue here: - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Dr. Khai Pin Lee and Dr. Gene Yong-Kwang Ong, from the Department of Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Kandang Kerbau Hospital, Singapore, tell Editor-in-Chief of EMJ, Dr. Ellen Weber, how the novel coronavirus is changing their ED and the Singaporean society in general.
They are two of the authors of “Dynamic adaptation to COVID-19 in a Singapore paediatric emergency department”, a paper which will be published in the next few days by EMJ in the following address:
dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2020-209634
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Monday Mar 16, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the March 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/117.
Predicting abusive head trauma in children https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/118 Validation of the PredAHT-2 prediction tool for abusive head trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/119 Association of clinically important traumatic brain injury and Glasgow Coma Scale scores in children with head injury https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/127 Biological mechanisms and individual variation in fibrinolysis after major trauma https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/135 Prehospital critical care is associated with increased survival in adult trauma patients in Scotland https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/141 Cranial burr holes in the emergency department: to drill or not to drill? https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/151 Cranial burr holes in the emergency department: to drill or not to drill? https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/154 Lessons from a pilot for uncontrolled donation after circulatory death in the ED in the UK https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/155 Non-invasive techniques for stimulating urine production in non-toilet trained children: a systematic review https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/3/162
Read the full March issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/3
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the February 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/55.
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
‘Stealth trauma’ in the young and the old: the next challenge for major trauma networks? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/56
Massive transfusion in The Netherlands - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/65 Blunt chest trauma in the elderly: an expert practice review - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/73
How can pain management in the emergency department be improved? Findings from multiple case study analysis of pain management in three UK emergency departments - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/2/85
Read the full February issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/2
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
The Heartlands Elderly Care Trauma and Ongoing Recovery Programme is the BMJ 2018 award winner for Emergency Medicine.
Dr David Raven, the National Course director for the HECTOR project and emergency medicine consultant at the Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK, tells EMJ’s Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber what makes this project unique.
Read the paper on the EMJ website (https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/12/11/emermed-2019-209143) and on the February 2020 issue of the journal.
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the January 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/1
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Comparison of four decision aids for the early diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/8
The incidence of airway haemorrhage in manual versus mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/14
Epidemiology of adolescent trauma in England: a review of TARN data 2008–2017 -
https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/25
Blood Glucose Reduction in Patients Treated with Insulin and Dextrose for Hyperkalemia - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/31
No rest for the weary: A cross-sectional study comparing patients sleep in the emergency department to those on the ward https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/42
Thromboprophylaxis in Lower Limb Immobilisation after Injury (TiLLI) https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/36
Emergency Medicine: let’s feed the good wolf - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1/52
Read the full January issue here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/1