Primary Survey: the highlights of August 2019

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the August 2019 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/451 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: First responder communication in CBRN environments: FIRCOM-CBRN study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/456 Impact of emergency physician experience on decision-making in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia and undergoing systematic thoracic CT scan - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/485 Meta-analysis of the accuracy of termination of resuscitation rules for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/479 Potential added value of the new emergency care dataset to ED-based public health surveillance in England: an initial concept analysis - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/459 Paracetamol versus other analgesia in adult patients with minor musculoskeletal injuries: a systematic review - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/493 Recognising bias in studies of diagnostic tests part 2: interpreting and verifying the index test - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/501 Man versus machine: comparison of naked-eye estimation and quantified capillary refill - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8/465

Read the full August issue - https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/8