Primary Survey: the highlights of April 2020

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the April 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Our regular monthly round up of the best and the brightest in the April edition of the EMJ. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/177 Impact of emergency care centralisation on mortality and efficiency: a retrospective service evaluation - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/180 Three into one does go - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/178 Emergency department visits during the 4/20 cannabis celebration - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/187 Routine alcohol screening in the ED: unscreened patients have an increased risk for hazardous alcohol use - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/206 Inadvertent tissue adhesive tarsorrhaphy of the eyelid: a review and exploratory trial of removal methods of Histoacryl - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/212 Performance of the MEDS score in predicting mortality among emergency department patients with a suspected infection: a meta-analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4/232.

Read the full April issue here: - https://emj.bmj.com/content/37/4