Emergency Medicine Journal: 40 (5)

Highlights from this issue

Primary survey: Highlights from this issue (21 April, 2023) Free
Caroline Leech

Medical error and the second victim

How does it feel? The system-person paradox of medical error (31 March, 2023)
Albert W Wu, Julius Cuong Pham
Rates of perceived medical errors and its correlation with work-related factors and personal distress among emergency physicians in China: a national cross-sectional study (9 November, 2022) Free
Shijiao Yan, Jing Wang, Xiaoxv Yin, Chuanzhu Lv, Jianxiong Wu, Nan Jiang, Zhenyuan Chen, Ketao Mu, Guopeng Zhang, Yanhong Gong

Women's health

Emergency department visits and emergency-to-inpatient admissions for abnormal uterine bleeding in the USA nationwide (2 November, 2022)
Jessica Grubman, Mitzi Hawkins, Sara Whetstone, Meg Autry, Ann Lazar, George F Sawaya, Vanessa Jacoby
A preliminary study of the effect of menstruation on the incidence of acute mountain sickness (15 February, 2023)
Megan Elizabeth Paul, Thomas D Wagner, Connor A Tukel, Dana R Levin

Clinical practice

Barriers and facilitators to guideline-recommended care of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in the ED: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework (15 February, 2023)
Sally Bradshaw, Marnie Graco, Anne Holland
Relationship of hepatitis C risk to hepatitis C test acceptance among adult patients participating in an ED hepatitis C screening programme (2 January, 2023)
Ethan Cowan, Samantha Brandspiegel, Benjamin Araki, Clare O'Brien-Lambert, Roland Merchant, David G Buckler, Erick Eiting, Yvette Calderon

Toxicology

Prospective study of retention in opioid agonist treatment and contact with emergency healthcare following release from prisons in Victoria, Australia (9 February, 2023)
Michael Curtis, Anna L Wilkinson, Paul Dietze, Ashleigh Cara Stewart, Stuart A Kinner, Reece David Cossar, Emily Nehme, Campbell Aitken, Shelley Walker, Tony Butler, Rebecca J Winter, Karen Smith, Mark Stoove
Does corrected QT interval correlate with serum ionised calcium in the ED setting? (17 January, 2023)
Maroan Cherkaoui, Annmarie Touborg Lassen, Mikkel Brabrand, Helene Kildegaard, Jakob Lundager Forberg
Incidence of cardiovascular symptoms and adverse events following self-reported acute cannabis intoxication at the emergency department: a retrospective study (20 March, 2023)
Femke Gresnigt, Lianne C van den Brink, Claudine Hunault, Eric Franssen, Dylan de Lange, Robert Riezebos
Implementation of a model of care for low back pain produces sustained reduction in opioid use in emergency departments (3 April, 2023)
Caitlin MP Jones, Danielle Coombs, Chung-Wei Christine Lin, Adrian Traeger, Qiang Li, Christina Abdel Shaheed, Sweekriti Sharma, Chris G Maher, Gustavo C Machado

Trauma

Venous thromboembolism risk following temporary immobilisation after injury: evaluation of the Aberdeen VTE risk tool (18 January, 2023)
Sayed Abdulmotaleb Almoosawy, Akosua Ofosu-Asiedu, Julie Hanna, Ben Conlen, Hamish Elliott, Ailsa Harrison, Christopher Edmunds, Poh Hong Tan, Henry G Watson, Jamie G Cooper
Risk factors that predict mortality in patients with blunt chest wall trauma: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis (14 October, 2022)
Ceri Battle, Kym Carter, Luke Newey, Jacopo Davide Giamello, Remo Melchio, Hayley Hutchings
Clinical predictors of fracture in patients with shoulder dislocation: systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy studies (30 November, 2022)
Ilaria Oldrini, Laura Coventry, Alex Novak, Steve Gwilym, David Metcalfe

SAQs

SONO case series: point-of-care ultrasound for Achilles tendon injury (17 March, 2023)
Emily Neill, William Shyy

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts from international emergency medicine journals (21 April, 2023)
EMJ Production

Journal update

Journal update monthly top five (21 April, 2023)
Rahul Uday Nayak, Shashank Ravi, Pallavi Sai Kondayapalepu, Deepthi Prabhakar, Prasanthi Govindarajan, Patricia Van Den Berg

Letters

Letter: Letter to the editor: Non-sterile gloves and dressing versus sterile gloves, dressings and drapes for suturing of traumatic wounds in the emergency department: a non-inferiority multicentre randomised controlled trial (8 February, 2023)
Hiraku Funakoshi
Letter: Reply to Dr Hiraku Funakoshi’s letter ‘Non-sterile gloves and dressing versus sterile gloves, dressings and drapes for suturing of traumatic wounds in the emergency department’ (8 February, 2023)
Juliette J M Zwaans

Image challenges

Sudden vision loss in a 68-year-old man: the life-saving value of funduscopy (21 April, 2023)
Laura Donaldson, Safwan Tayeb, Edward Margolin
A man with left-sided weakness and numbness (21 April, 2023)
Galina Gheihman, Xavier Guell Paradis, Mary A O’Neal
Girl with epigastric pain (21 April, 2023)
Chun-Yen Huang, Wei-Jing Lee

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May 2023 - Volume 40 - 5

Highlights from this issue

Medical error and the second victim

Women's health

Clinical practice

Toxicology

Trauma

SAQs

Global emergency highlights

Journal update

Letters

Image challenges

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Table of contents

May 2023 - Volume 40 - 5

Highlights from this issue

Medical error and the second victim

Women's health

Clinical practice

Toxicology

Trauma

SAQs

Global emergency highlights

Journal update

Letters

Image challenges

Issue Information