Primary Survey: the highlights of May 2020

A bit later than usual, but here we are again! Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks with Professor Richard Body about the highlights of the May 2020 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/249 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: SARS: experience from the emergency department, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore - emj.bmj.com/content/20/6/501 Views and experiences of nurses in providing end-of-life care to patients in an ED context: a qualitative systematic review - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/265 End of life care in the emergency department - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/273 That was a game changer: clinical impact of an emergency department-based palliative care communication skills training workshop - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/262 Inter-rater reliability in a bespoke scoring tool: the Paediatric Observation Priority Score - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/293 Are referrals to hospital from out-of-hours primary care associated with National Early Warning Scores? - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/279 Glucose as an additional parameter to National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in prehospital setting enhances identification of patients at risk of death: an observational cohort study - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/286 Emergency medicine registrar training in Africa: overview of programmes, faculty and sustainability - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5/300

Read the full May issue here - emj.bmj.com/content/37/5