TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 167 LP - 167 DO - 10.1136/emermed-2021-211294 VL - 38 IS - 3 AU - Edward Carlton Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/38/3/167.abstract N2 - From an Editorial perspective, this month’s EMJ makes for very happy reading. The quality and breadth of original and clinically relevant research within this issue is fantastic. From large observational analyses, qualitative research embedded within multicentre clinical trials and original randomised controlled trials, to rapid original research to inform our response to COVID-19. Emergency medicine research is certainly in an excellent place advancing all the time, it is simply a pleasure to see.Over the past decade safe oxygen prescribing in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) attending the emergency department has vastly improved. This has been largely driven by robust trial evidence and responsive guidelines that recommend targeting oxygen saturations to 88%–92% in the majority of these patients. However, clinical questions remain, particularly around the use of higher targeted oxygen saturations in patients with normocapnia. In this month’s Editor’s Choice, an observational analysis of over 1000 patients with COPD, Echevarria and colleagues provide some compelling data. Of patients receiving oxygen, oxygen … ER -