Emergency Medicine Journal: 41 (5)

Highlights from this issue

Primary survey: highlights from this issue (22 April, 2024) Free
Ellen J Weber

Smoking cessation

Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): a multicentre randomised controlled trial (26 March, 2024)
Ian Pope, Lucy V Clark, Allan Clark, Emma Ward, Pippa Belderson, Susan Stirling, Steve Parrott, Jinshuo Li, Tim Coats, Linda Bauld, Richard Holland, Sarah Gentry, Sanjay Agrawal, Benjamin Michael Bloom, Adrian A Boyle, Alasdair J Gray, M Geraint Morris, Jonathan Livingstone-Banks, Caitlin Notley
Electronic cigarettes: beneficial for smoking cessation but harmful to public health? (26 March, 2024)
Gina Kruse, Jon Samet, Joaquin Barnoya
Opportunistic screening in the emergency department (10 April, 2024)
James France

Co-located GP and ED services

Programme theories to describe how different general practitioner service models work in different contexts in or alongside emergency departments (GP-ED): realist evaluation (22 April, 2024)
Alison Cooper, Michelle Edwards, Freya Davies, Delyth Price, Pippa Anderson, Andrew Carson-Stevens, Matthew Cooke, Jeremy Dale, Liam Donaldson, Bridie Angela Evans, Barbara Harrington, Julie Hepburn, Peter Hibbert, Thomas C Hughes, Alison Porter, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Alan Watkins, Helen Snooks, Adrian Edwards
GP patients in the emergency department (22 April, 2024)
Gerard FitzGerald

Imaging

Using an artificial intelligence software improves emergency medicine physician intracranial haemorrhage detection to radiologist levels (17 January, 2024)
Pranav Warman, Anmol Warman, Roshan Warman, Andrew Degnan, Johan Blickman, David Smith, Paul McHale, Zachary Coburn, Sean McCormick, Varun Chowdhary, Dev Dash, Rohit Sangal, Jason Vadhan, Tulio Bueso, Thomas Windisch, Gabriel Neves
Diagnostic accuracy of venous system ultrasound for subtypes of acute kidney injury (14 February, 2024)
Mehmet Ali Aslaner, Özant Helvacı, Korbin Haycock, İsa Kılıçaslan, Emre Yaşar, Mahi Nur Cerit, Halit Nahit Şendur, Galip Güz, Ahmet Demircan
Letter: Outcomes of repeat X-rays of the chest recommended by radiology of patients discharged from the emergency department (25 March, 2024)
Rebecca Headon, Luke Hughes, Ross Layden, Orlaith Geary, Deirdre Fitzgerald, Darragh Halpenny, Aileen McCabe

Cardiology

External validation of a rapid algorithm using high-sensitivity troponin assay results for evaluating patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (5 February, 2024)
Louise Cullen, Jaimi H Greenslade, Laura Stephensen, Isuru Ranasinghe, Niranjan Gaikwad, Maryam Khorramshahi Bayat, Ehsan Mahmoodi, Martin Than, Fred Apple, William Parsonage
High-sensitivity troponin testing at the point of care for the diagnosis of myocardial infarction: a prospective emergency department clinical evaluation (1 February, 2024)
Jemima May Curran, Aleksandra Mergo, Sarah White, Bernard L Croal, Jamie G Cooper
Determination of a whole-blood single-test low-risk threshold for a point-of-care high-sensitivity troponin assay (1 March, 2024)
John W Pickering, Laura Hamill, Sally Aldous, Laura Joyce, R Alex Stothart, Otis Williams, Christopher M Florkowski, Martin Than

Research letter

Trends in the mortality of intra-abdominal infections in adults over 25 years in the USA, 1999–2021 (5 February, 2024)
Yi Liu, Jamil S Samaan, Youssef M Essanaa, Fan Lv, Fanpu Ji, Kamran Samakar, Yee Hui Yeo

RCEM practice guidelines

RCEM best practice guideline: suspected cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome in emergency departments (6 March, 2024) Free
Christopher Humphries, Marianne Gillings
Understanding RCEM Best Practice Guidelines (6 March, 2024) Free
Christopher Humphries, Adrian A Boyle, James France, Paul Hunt

Journal update

Journal update monthly top five (22 April, 2024)
Ashleigh Trimble, Bethany Sampson, Charlotte Grace Underwood, Roshan Cherian, Fiona McDonald, Victoria Webster, John Shepherd, James David van Oppen

Global emergency highlights

Abstracts from international Emergency Medicine journals (22 April, 2024)
EMJ Production

Best evidence topic reports

Best Evidence Topic report: Antithrombotic therapy and endovascular intervention for blunt cerebrovascular injury (15 February, 2024)
Luke Cutts, Chris Gray, Navdeep Gill, Daniel Horner

Image challenge

Recurrent calf pain after sport activity (22 April, 2024)
Antonio J Martín-Jiménez, Francisco Miralles-Aguiar, Daniel García-Gil
Acutely shaky hand (22 April, 2024)
You-Jiang Tan, Chee Hao Teo, Cassandra Chan
Adolescent with painful swallowing (22 April, 2024)
En-Jui Liu, Chung-Yi Wang, Yen-Yu Liu

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May 2024 - Volume 41 - 5

Highlights from this issue

Smoking cessation

Co-located GP and ED services

Imaging

Cardiology

Research letter

RCEM practice guidelines

Journal update

Global emergency highlights

Best evidence topic reports

Image challenge

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Table of contents

May 2024 - Volume 41 - 5

Highlights from this issue

Smoking cessation

Co-located GP and ED services

Imaging

Cardiology

Research letter

RCEM practice guidelines

Journal update

Global emergency highlights

Best evidence topic reports

Image challenge

Issue Information