August 2017’s Primary Survey

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the August 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/491 Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below: Clinical relevance of pharmacist intervention in an emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/495 Developing a decision rule to optimise clinical pharmacist resources for medication reconciliation in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/502 Emergency medicine pharmacists on an international scale - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/492 ‘Major trauma’: now two separate diseases? - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/494 Traumatic brain injuries in older adults—6 years of data for one UK trauma centre: retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/509 Validating the Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) and Troponin-only Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (T-MACS) rules for the prediction of acute myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/517 A practical approach to Events Medicine provision - emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/538 BET 1: Lidocaine with propofol to reduce pain on injection - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/551.2 BET 2: Poor evidence on whether teaching cognitive debiasing, or cognitive forcing strategies, lead to a reduction in errors attributable to cognition in emergency medicine students or doctors - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/8/553 Read the full August issue here: emj.bmj.com/content/34/8