August 2022; papers of the month

Welcome back to November's Papers of the Month! This month we're looking at three papers that all ask a deceptively simple question: how confident should we be in the decisions we make before we have the full picture? First up, we've got a huge Australian cohort of patients whom ...  Show more

In this Roadside to Resus, we take the 2026 Fifth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction back to the patients we see in the ED and pre-hospital setting. We start with the key question, when does myocardial injury become an infarction? From there, we work through the new pr ...  Show more

In this month's EM Quick Hits: Heather Cary on the use and misuse of abdominal FAST in pediatric trauma, Hans Rosenberg and Arleigh McCurdy on the diagnosis and management of Multiple Myeloma in the ED, David Jerome on practice tips for managing the drowning patient, Brit Long an ...  Show more

In this months EM Quick Hits podcast: The mighty return of Carr's Cases! Sarah Reid on differentiating septic arthritis from transient synovitis in pediatric limp, Anand Swaminathan on managing tracheostomy complications in the ED, Nour Khatib on rural medicine and ethylene glyco ...  Show more

On this month's EM Quick Hits: Christina Shenvi on ACS in older people, Nour Khatib on rural NRP, Jess McLaren on how not to get fooled by ECG computer interpretation, Brit Long on hemophilia recognition and workup, Maria Ivankovic on persistent and intractable hiccups from EM Ca ...  Show more