EMJ podcast
- Website
- http://soundcloud.com/bmjpodcasts/sets/emj-podcast
- Description
- 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.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-01-16 20:44
- last episode published
- 2025-01-16 06:41
- publication frequency
- 25.82 days
- Contributors
- BMJ Group
- Author Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 167
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Medicine Science & Medicine Health & Fitness
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-16 |
Overcrowding in the emergency department, with Dr Adrian Boyle and Prof Ellen Weber A special bonus podcast this time, on the perennial issue of crowding. Rick and Sarah are joined by Royal College of Emergency Medicine president Dr. Adrian Boyle, and EMJ's editor-in-chief Prof. Ellen Weber. They address recent evidence for crowding's... |
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| 2025-01-07 | It's a celebration of qualitative research to start the new year, with a collection of papers offering new perspectives on emergency department issues. First is a pair of papers centred on the theme of pre-alerts to the emergency department. Setting th... |
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| 2024-12-03 | Subarachnoid haemorrhage is a diagnosis that can't be missed, but it is not a simple process to detect it. The first paper for discussion this month questions if a CT scan within 6 hours is sufficient for exclusion in patients with acute headache. Then... |
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| 2024-11-01 |
Missing elbow fractures, and consulting the elders: November 2024 Primary Survey Upper limb injuries make up about three-quarters of the limb injuries to children seen in the emergency department. But when it comes to the elbow, just how good are clinicians at diagnosing based on radiography? The first paper this month is a study p... |
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| 2024-10-01 | There's a whole pile of blocks in this month's papers, with the first being a trial of Erector-Spinae Plane (ESP) blocks, not for rib fractures as you might expect but Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) pain instead. Following on from that is a retrospecti... |
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| 2024-09-04 |
Inducting new doctors, and managing rib fractures - September 2024 Primary Survey Being fallible was one of the most valued characteristics in a consultant, according to new doctors going through their induction - that's the subject of the first paper this month. Next up is a study on the impact of noise on hospital staff, which inc... |
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| 2024-08-02 |
When to CT scan after a seizure, and indirect signs of appendicitis: August 2024 Primary Survey The recovery of laceration repair patients is the topic of this month's first paper, looking at behavioural disturbances in children following these difficult medical procedures. The second paper deals with pre-hospital use of tranexamic acid for traum... |
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| 2024-07-04 |
Opioid toxicity, thrombectomy transfers, and austerity's impact: July 2024 Primary Survey What might yawning and sneezing be signs of in a patient? This month's podcast features new RCEM and NPIS guidance on acute opioid toxicity, outlining a number of symptoms to stay alert to. Before getting to that there's a paper on bypassing hospitals ... |
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| 2024-06-06 |
Patient self-perception, and presentations of headache: June 2024 Primary Survey How well do patients in the emergency department judge the severity of their situation? Some may fear the worst for any hospital visit, and others not realise that their lives are in danger. This month's first paper is a review of the accuracy of self-... |
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| 2024-05-09 | Should we be bringing preventative medicine into the emergency department, or is it just using up valuable time? Our first paper this month looks at the "Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED)" trial, which presents the case fo... |
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