EMJ Podcast

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 Emer...

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,...

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...

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 dat...

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/c...

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...

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 heal...

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-hospi...

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 ht...

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the November 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/11/657 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: Risk of significant traumatic brain injury in adults with minor head injury taking direct oral anticoagulants: a cohort study and u...

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the October 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/593 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: Are we preaching to the choir? Where should studies on frequent users of EDs be published? - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/10/595 F...

Global Emergency Care Collaborative (GECCo) is an initiative that aims to enhance global health interest and capacity within the field of emergency care. Editor-in-Chief of EMJ, Ellen Weber, talks to the group responsible for the initiative. Read the related papers on the EMJ website: https://emj.bmj.com/content/early/2020/08/29/emermed-2020-209432 - Global health and the Royal College of Emergenc...

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the August 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: Undertriage of the elderly major trauma patient continues in major trauma centre care: a retrospective cohort review - https://emj.bmj...

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 inequalit...

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 effectiven...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 cl...

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 Massi...

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/...

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...

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 -...

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, acui...