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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
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Patients don’t have language barriers; the healthcare system does - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/580
Observational study to understand interpreter service use in emergency medicine: why the key may lie outside of the initial provider assessment - Editor's Choice - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/582
Framing of clinical information affects physicians’ diagnostic accuracy - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/589
Impact of the caller’s emotional state and cooperation on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest recognition and dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/595
Diurnal, weekly and seasonal variations of chest pain in patients transported by emergency medical services - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/601
Pulmonary embolism following complex trauma: UK MTC observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/608
Adapting the Canadian CT head rule age criteria for mild traumatic brain injury - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/10/617
Read the full October issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/10.
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the September 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/517
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
The Panoramic Dental Radiograph for Emergency Physicians - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/565
Exploring the characteristics, acuity and management of adult ED patients at night-time - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/554
Evaluation of the criteria for trauma activation in the paediatric emergency department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/529
Why are people increasingly attending the emergency department? A study of the French healthcare system - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/548
Location of arrest and effect of prehospital advanced airway management after emergency medical service-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Nationwide observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/541
Phenomenological study exploring ethics in prehospital research from the paramedic’s perspective: experiences from the Paramedic-2 trial in a UK ambulance service - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/535
Process conformance is associated with successful first intubation attempt and lower odds of adverse events in a paediatric emergency setting - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/520
Triaging the triage: reducing waiting time to triage in the emergency department at a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, India - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9/558
Read the full September issue - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/9
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the August 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/451
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
First responder communication in CBRN environments: FIRCOM-CBRN study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/456
Impact of emergency physician experience on decision-making in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia and undergoing systematic thoracic CT scan - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/485
Meta-analysis of the accuracy of termination of resuscitation rules for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/479
Potential added value of the new emergency care dataset to ED-based public health surveillance in England: an initial concept analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/459
Paracetamol versus other analgesia in adult patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/493
Recognising bias in studies of diagnostic tests part 2: interpreting and verifying the index test - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/501
Man versus machine: comparison of naked-eye estimation and quantified capillary refill - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/465
Read the full August issue - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Thursday Jul 25, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the July 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/385
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Epidemiology of traumatic injuries presenting to an ED in Central Haiti: a retrospective cohort study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/389
Prehospital tranexamic acid shortens the interval to administration by half in Major Trauma Networks: a service evaluation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/395
Confirmed cardiac output on emergency medical services arrival as confounding by indication: an observational study of prehospital airway management in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/410
Driving stroke quality improvement at scale in EDs across a nationwide network of hospitals: strategies and interventions - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/423
The association of paramedic rapid sequence intubation and survival in out-of-hospital stroke - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/416
Reducing repeat paediatric emergency department attendance for non-urgent care: a systematic review of the effectiveness of interventions - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/7/435
Read the full July issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/7.
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the June 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/6/324
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Measurement and improvement of emergency department performance through inspection and rating: an observational study of emergency departments in acute hospitals in England - https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/10/emermed-2018-207941
Prehospital determinants of successful resuscitation after traumatic and non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/05/02/emermed-2018-208165
Ageing population has changed the nature of major thoracic injury - https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/02/emermed-2018-207943.abstract
'They don't are how much you know until they know how much you care': A qualitative meta-synthesis of patient experience in the Emergency Department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/19/emermed-2018-208156
Anatomy of resuscitative care unit: expanding the borders of traditional intensive care units - emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/16/emermed-2019-208455.abstract
Plight of the pelvic exam - https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/16/emermed-2019-208474
Read the full June issue - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/6
Friday May 03, 2019
Friday May 03, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the May 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/257
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Could this be Measles? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/310
Randomised controlled trial of simulation-based education for mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation training - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/266
Preferred learning modalities and practice for critical skills: a global survey of paediatric emergency medicine clinicians - emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/273
Immune checkpoint blockade toxicity among patients with cancer presenting to the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/306
Major incident triage and the evaluation of the Triage Sort as a secondary triage method - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/281
Distributions of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across a healthcare system following a large-scale roll-out - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/287
A mixed methods study of the impact of consultant overnight working in an English Emergency Department - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/5/298
Read the full May issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/5.
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
Thursday Feb 28, 2019
The Speaker Development Programme (SDP) is a prize-winning year-long curriculum aimed at developing women speakers as a step on the journey towards academic recognition. Editor-in-Chief of the Emergency Medicine Journal Professor Ellen Weber talks to Dr Dara Kass, the founder of this program. They also discuss the project FemInEm, an organisation dedicated to gender equity in emergency medicine.
Read the related article on the EMJ website: (https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2019/01/10/emermed-2018-207818). The commentary mentioned in the podcast will be published with the April issue of the journal.
More papers mentioned in the podcast:
- Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences? (https://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10/681)
- When will we have enough women speakers in emergency medicine? (https://emj.bmj.com/content/33/10/680)
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal.
Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/63
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
A simple clinical assessment is superior to systematic triage in prediction of mortality in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/66
A systematic review examining the impact of redirecting low-acuity patients seeking emergency department care: is the juice worth the squeeze? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/97
From ED overcrowding to jail overcrowding: a cautionary tale of a Serial Inebriate Programme (SIP) - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/92
UK’s initial operational response and specialist operational response to CBRN and HazMat incidents: a primer on decontamination protocols for healthcare professionals - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/117
Implementation of tranexamic acid for bleeding trauma patients: a longitudinal and cross-sectional study - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/78
Emergency medical services oxygen equipment: a fomite for transmission of MRSA? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/89
Factors influencing variation in investigations after a negative CT brain scan in suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage: a qualitative study- emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/72
Prolonged length of stay in the emergency department and increased risk of hospital mortality in patients with sepsis requiring ICU admission - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/82
Approach to syncope in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/108
Read the full February issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/2.
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Thursday Jan 10, 2019
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the January 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by Editor-in-Chief Ellen Weber.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/1.
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
The view from here: on the other side of the curtain - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/52
Accuracy of NEXUS II head injury decision rule in children: a prospective PREDICT cohort study - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/4
Side effects of decision rules, or the law of unintended consequences - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/2
Analgesia in the emergency department: why is it not administered? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/12
Urgent care axis for the older adult: where is best to target interventions? - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/22
Exploring parents’ reasons for attending the emergency department for children with minor illnesses: a mixed methods systematic review - emj.bmj.com/content/36/1/39
Read the full January issue here: emj.bmj.com/content/36/1
Tuesday Dec 11, 2018
Tuesday Dec 11, 2018
Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the December 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, chosen by Associate Editor Mary Dawood.
Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/719
Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below:
Evaluation of the provision of helicopter emergency medical services in Europe - emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/720
Heart failure and palliative care in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/726
Performing sit down medicine in a stand-up place: is it time for palliative care in the emergency department? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/730
Predrawn prehospital medications are microbiologically safe for up to 48 hours - emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/743
Systematic review and meta-analysis of pre-hospital diagnostic accuracy studies - emj.bmj.com/content/35/12/757
Read the full December 2018 issue of EMJ here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/12