September 2016’s Primary Survey

Simon Carley and and Rick Body, EMJ associate editors, talk you through the highlights of the September 2016's EMJ. Here are the links to the discussed papers: Regional scale-up of an Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) training programme from a referral hospital to primary care health centres in Guatemala - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/611.abstract What is the purpose of log roll examination in the unconscious adult trauma patient during trauma reception? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/632.abstract Point-of-care lung ultrasound in young children with respiratory tract infections and wheeze - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/603.abstract Perceived clinician–patient communication in the emergency department and subsequent post-traumatic stress symptoms in patients evaluated for acute coronary syndrome - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/626.full Man or machine? An experimental study of prehospital emergency amputation - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/641.full External validation of the emergency department assessment of chest pain score accelerated diagnostic pathway (EDACS-ADP) - http://emj.bmj.com/content/33/9/618.abstract For all the content from the issue, see:

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