Emergency Medicine Journal: 37 (6)

Primary survey

Highlights from this issue (2 June, 2020) Free
Simon Smith

Emergency Medicine Research in the UK: Glass Half Full or Half Empty

Academic emergency medicine in the UK (24 April, 2020)
Jason E Smith
Declining Emergency Medicine publications from the UK: the glass is half empty and may be leaking (24 April, 2020)
Richard Body
Evolution of methodology and reporting of emergency medicine quantitative research over a 20-year period (11 February, 2020)
Jesse Smith, Patrick Date, William Spencer, Erik de Tonnerre, David McDonald Taylor

Reports from the front

Suffocating in the eye of the storm: attempting to breathe at the epicentre of New York’s COVID-19 pandemic (3 May, 2020)
Lynn Jiang, Stefan Flores
Letter: Implications for COVID-19 triage from the ICNARC report of 2204 COVID-19 cases managed in UK adult intensive care units (4 May, 2020)
Claire L Shovlin, Marcela P Vizcaychipi
Letter: Important role of emergency department doctors after the outbreak of COVID-19 in China (3 May, 2020)
Xiao Lu, Shanxiang Xu
Onsite telemedicine strategy for coronavirus (COVID-19) screening to limit exposure in ED (3 May, 2020)
Eric Chou, Yu-Lin Hsieh, Jon Wolfshohl, Fonda Green, Toral Bhakta

Paediatrics

Early versus delayed emergency department presentation following mild Traumatic Brain Injury and the presence of symptom at 1, 4 and 12 weeks in children (5 March, 2020)
Jocelyn Gravel, Andrée-Ann Ledoux, Ken Tang, Keith Owens Yeates, William Craig, Martin Osmond, Kathy Boutis, Emma Burns, Gurinder Sangha, Alexander Sasha Dubrovsky, Darcy Beer, Roger Zemek
Retrospective chart review of minor tibial fractures in preschoolers: immobilisation and complications (3 April, 2020)
Charlotte A Ferrier, Rachel Schembri, Sandy M Hopper
Burns and Scalds Assessment Template: standardising clinical assessment of childhood burns in the emergency department (22 April, 2020)
Kirsty Hepburn, Verity Bennett, Alison Mary Kemp, Linda Irene Hollen, Diane Nuttall, Zoe Roberts, David Farrell, Stephen Mullen

Critical care

Moderate to severe hyperphosphataemia as an independent prognostic factor for 28-day mortality in adult patients with sepsis (22 April, 2020)
Dong-Hyun Jang, You Hwan Jo, Jae Hyuk Lee, Joonghee Kim, Seung Min Park, Ji Eun Hwang, Dong Keon Lee, Inwon Park, Che Uk Lee, Sang-Min Lee
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 (21 April, 2020)
Robert Sinto, Suhendro Suwarto, Khie Chen Lie, Kuntjoro Harimurti, Djoko Widodo, Herdiman T Pohan

Systematic review

Whole blood transfusion versus component therapy in adult trauma patients with acute major haemorrhage (6 May, 2020)
Pascale Avery, Sarah Morton, Harriet Tucker, Laura Green, Anne Weaver, Ross Davenport

Best Evidence Topic Reports

Towards evidence-based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary (2 June, 2020)
Daniel Horner
BET 1: Prone positioning of awake patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure (2 June, 2020)
Jack Bell, Daniel Horner
BET 2: Video laryngoscopy for patients requiring endotracheal intubation in the emergency department (2 June, 2020)
Abbie Howson, Alex Goodliff, Daniel Horner

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts from international emergency medicine journals (2 June, 2020)
EMJ Production

Postscript

Letter: In reply:PICO questions in systematic reviews (16 April, 2020)
Milan L Ridderikhof, Markus Hollmann
Letter: Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes and Study (PICOS) design as a framework to formulate eligibility criteria in systematic reviews (5 April, 2020)
Mehrdad Amir-Behghadami, Ali Janati
Letter: In reply: Predicting abusive head trauma (6 April, 2020)
Laura Elizabeth Cowley, Helena Pfeiffer, Franz Babl, Alison Mary Kemp
PostScript: In reply: Is it time to initiate venous thromobolism prophylaxis for acute and ambulatory outpatients with lower limb immobilisation? (12 May, 2020)
Adrian Cois, Bory Kea

In perspective

The CRASH3 study: prehospital TXA for every injured patient? (27 March, 2020)
Timothy J Coats, Fiona E Lecky

Image challenges

Frequent attendance with self-harm: what might you be missing? (2 June, 2020)
Alex B Thomson, Emma McAllister, David Veale
An unusual cause of abdominal pain (2 June, 2020)
Jiarong Ye, Weiliang Wang, Zhongde Zhang

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June 2020 - Volume 37 - 6

Primary survey

Emergency Medicine Research in the UK: Glass Half Full or Half Empty

Reports from the front

Paediatrics

Critical care

Systematic review

Best Evidence Topic Reports

Global emergency highlights

Postscript

In perspective

Image challenges

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Table of contents

June 2020 - Volume 37 - 6

Primary survey

Emergency Medicine Research in the UK: Glass Half Full or Half Empty

Reports from the front

Paediatrics

Critical care

Systematic review

Best Evidence Topic Reports

Global emergency highlights

Postscript

In perspective

Image challenges

Issue Information