Emergency Medicine Journal: 40 (3)

Highlights from this issue

Primary survey: Highlights from this issue (23 February, 2023) Free
Edward Carlton

Head injury

Diagnostic performance of S100B as a rule-out test for intracranial pathology in head-injured patients presenting to the emergency department who meet NICE Head Injury Guideline criteria for CT-head scan (2 November, 2022) Free
Alice Rogan, Annabelle Sik, Emily Dickinson, Vimal Patel, Brad Peckler, David McQuade, Peter D Larsen
Prevalence of secondary insults and outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury intubated in the prehospital setting: a retrospective cohort study (5 January, 2023)
Michael Butterfield, Daniel Bodnar, Frances Williamson, Lachlan Parker, Glenn Ryan
Does pre-injury clopidogrel use increase the risk of intracranial haemorrhage post head injury in adult patients? A systematic review and meta-analysis (30 September, 2022)
Samuel Moffatt, Sara Venturini, Paul Vulliamy

Paediatrics

Paediatric acute non-traumatic limp presenting to the emergency department: a retrospective observational study (22 November, 2022)
Jacky Tu, Mitchell Haines, Peter Gowdie, Simon Craig
Temperature threshold in the screening of bacterial infections in young infants with hypothermia (17 November, 2022)
Yu Hsiang Johnny Lo, Christopher Graves, Jamie Lynn Holland, Alexander Joseph Rogers, Nathan Money, Andrew Nobuhide Hashikawa, Sriram Ramgopal
Qualitative study of emergency clinicians to inform a national guideline on the management of children with mild-to-moderate head injuries (24 August, 2022)
Emma J Tavender, Catherine L Wilson, Stuart Dalziel, Ed Oakley, Meredith Borland, Dustin W Ballard, Elizabeth Cotterell, Natalie Phillips, Franz E Babl
International practice patterns of IV magnesium in paediatric acute asthma (7 November, 2022)
Laura Simone, Roger Zemek, Damian Roland, Mark D Lyttle, Simon Craig, Stuart R Dalziel, Jocelyn Gravel, Yaron Finkelstein, Sarah Curtis, Stephen B Freedman, Amy C Plint, Suzanne Schuh

COVID-19

Predictors and outcomes of delirium in the emergency department during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Milan (15 December, 2022)
Sarah Damanti, Enrica Bozzolo, Stefano Franchini, Claudia Frangi, Giuseppe Alvise Ramirez, Carla Pedroso, Giuseppe Di Lucca, Raffaella Scotti, Davide Valsecchi, Marta Cilla, Elena Cinel, Chiara Santini, Jacopo Castellani, Emanuela Manzo, Stefania Vadruccio, Marzia Spessot, Giovanni Borghi, Giacomo Monti, Giovanni Landoni, Patrizia Rovere-Querini, Mona-Rita Yacoub, Moreno Tresoldi
Performance of three screening tools to predict COVID-19 positivity in emergency department patients (3 January, 2023)
Madeline A DiLorenzo, Megan R Davis, Julianne N Dugas, Kerrie P Nelson, Natasha S Hochberg, Robin R Ingalls, Rebecca Grochow Mishuris, Elissa M Schechter-Perkins
Inverse association between blood pressure and pulse oximetry accuracy: an observational study in patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 infection (7 December, 2022)
Colin J Crooks, Joe West, Jo Morling, Mark Simmonds, Irene Juurlink, Steve Briggs, Simon Cruickshank, Susan Hammond-Pears, Dominick Shaw, Tim Card, Andrew W Fogarty

Toxicology

SNAPTIMED study: does the Scottish and Newcastle Antiemetic Protocol achieve timely intervention and management from the emergency department to discharge for paracetamol poisoning? (18 August, 2022)
Christopher Humphries, Georgina Roberts, Anjeli Taheem, Hashem Abdel Kader, Rebecca Kidd, Jason Smith

Concepts

High-potency benzodiazepine misuse in opioid-dependent patients: use naloxone with care (17 August, 2022)
Rajendra Raman

Sono case series

Lung point-of-care ultrasound in the assessment of pleural effusions (6 January, 2023)
Kevin Andrew Padrez, Sally Graglia

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts from international emergency medicine journals (23 February, 2023)
EMJ Production

Journal update

Journal update monthly top five (8 February, 2023)
Hridesh Chatha, Fiona Sampson, Susan Croft, Jen Lewis, Mel Watson, Alexander Robertson, Michael Tonkins, Gabrielle Prager

In perspective

‘From harm to hope’: the UK government’s 10-year drug plan to cut crime and save lives – an emergency medicine perspective (5 January, 2023)
Christopher Humphries

Image challenges

Wheezing for weeks: respiratory distress in an infant (23 February, 2023)
Rebecca Wiersma, Rahul Kaila
Woman with cough and chest pain (23 February, 2023)
Chun-Jen Wu, Jen-Tang Sun, Chih-Jung Chang
Unexpected cutaneous alterations in a patient with lower back pain (23 February, 2023)
Veronika Schmidt, Pashija Demolli, Matthias Möhrenschlager
Traumatic brain injury (7 November, 2022)
Emanuele Bernardi, Jacopo Davide Giamello, Bartolomeo Lorenzati

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March 2023 - Volume 40 - 3

Highlights from this issue

Head injury

Paediatrics

COVID-19

Toxicology

Concepts

Sono case series

Global emergency highlights

Journal update

In perspective

Image challenges

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Table of contents

March 2023 - Volume 40 - 3

Highlights from this issue

Head injury

Paediatrics

COVID-19

Toxicology

Concepts

Sono case series

Global emergency highlights

Journal update

In perspective

Image challenges

Issue Information