HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Emergency Medicine and Surgery

Emergency Medicine current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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April 2025

Assessment and management of common hand fractures in adults

Being a patient in a crowded emergency department: a qualitative service evaluation

Care for older adults living with dementia in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-synthesis of care partner roles and perspectives

Coagulation and platelet function in cold-stored whole blood on missions in a helicopter emergency service

Communication barriers to optimal access to emergency rooms according to deaf and hard-of-hearing patients and health care workers: a mixed-methods study

Cost–utility analysis of provision of e-cigarette starter kits for smoking cessation in emergency departments: an economic evaluation of a randomized controlled trial

Diagnosis and management of hidradenitis suppurativa: a review for the emergency clinician

Diagnostic accuracy of prehospital ultrasound in detecting lung injury in patients with trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Diagnostic reasoning and cognitive error in emergency medicine: implications for teaching and learning

Disparities in pain management among transgender patients presenting to the emergency department for abdominal pain

Early restrictive vs liberal oxygen for trauma patients: the TRAUMOX2 randomized clinical trial

Efficacy and safety of intravenous nerinetide initiated by paramedics in the field for acute cerebral ischaemia within 3 h of symptom onset (FRONTIER): a phase 2, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

Evaluating the utility of end-tidal CO2 as a predictor of mortality in trauma victims: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Factors and outcomes associated with under- and overdiagnosis of sepsis in the first hour of emergency department care

Leveraging artificial intelligence to reduce diagnostic errors in emergency medicine: challenges, opportunities, and future directions

Means to an end: characteristics and follow-up of emergency department patients with a history of suicide attempt via medication overdose

Multiplex lateral flow test sensitivity and specificity in detecting influenza A, B and SARS-CoV-2 in adult patients in a UK emergency department

Palliative care initiated in the emergency department: a cluster randomized clinical trial

The problem with how we view medical (and diagnostic) error in emergency medicine

A qualitative study exploring the experiences of advanced clinical practitioner training in emergency care in the South West of England, United Kingdom

Racial and ethnic disparities in use of helicopter transport after severe trauma in the US

Reduced left-without-being-seen rates and impact on disparities after guest services ambassadors implementation

Sex and gender reporting in UK emergency medicine trials from 2010 to 2023: a systematic review

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Feb-Mar); Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Feb); Addiction (Feb); American Journal of Surgery (Feb); BMJ, The (Mar); Emergency Medicine Journal (Feb-Apr); JAMA (Feb); JAMA Surgery (Mar); Lancet, The (Feb)

February 2025

Assessment of prognostic scores for emergency department patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Association between emergency medical services intervention volume and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival: a propensity score matching analysis

Emergency department staff compassion is associated with lower fear of enacted stigma among patients with opioid use disorder

Global, regional, and national drowning trends from 1990 to 2021: Results from the 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study

How do emergency departments respond to ambulance pre-alert calls? A qualitative exploration of the management of pre-alerts in UK emergency departments

Implementation of delirium screening in the emergency department: a qualitative study with early adopters

Is emergency doctors’ tolerance of clinical uncertainty on a novel measure associated with doctor well-being, healthcare resource use and patient outcomes?

Managing awake intubation

Managing emergency endotracheal intubation utilizing a bougie

Mass casualty decontamination following a chemical incident: evaluating improvised and interim decontamination protocols in a controlled cross-over volunteer study

Prehospital endotracheal intubation for traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and improved neurological outcomes

Pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria: diagnostic accuracy and impact of COVID-19

Risk-stratification tools for emergency department patients with syncope: a systematic review and meta-analysis of direct evidence for SAEM GRACE

The role of language in hospital admissions: the COVID-19 experience in a safety-net hospital emergency department

Safety of diltiazem for acute management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients with heart failure and reduced ejection fraction in the emergency department

Selective use of positive-pressure ventilation for preoxygenation during air medical rapid sequence intubation

Variation in ambulance pre-alert process and practice: cross-sectional survey of ambulance clinicians

Well-being interventions for emergency department staff: ‘necessary’ but ‘inadequate’ – a phenomenographic study

What influences ambulance clinician decisions to pre-alert emergency departments: a qualitative exploration of pre-alert practice in UK ambulance services and emergency departments

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Dec-Jan); Annals of Emergency Medicine (Jan); Emergency Medicine Journal (Jan); Journal of Emergency Medicine (Dec); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Dec)

December 2024

Approach to acute dizziness/vertigo in the emergency department: selected controversies regarding specialty consultation

Clinical policy: use of thrombolytics for the management of acute ischemic stroke in the emergency department

Culture of safety in an adult and paediatric emergency department before and after the COVID-19 pandemic

Delayed admission of patients with hip fracture from the emergency department is associated with an increased mortality risk and increased length of hospital stay

Delirium detection in the emergency department: a diagnostic accuracy meta-analysis of history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and screening instruments

See also: Risk factors and risk stratification approaches for delirium screening: a Geriatric Emergency Department Guidelines 2.0 systematic review

Diagnostic accuracy of alternative biomarkers for acute aortic syndrome: a systematic review

Discharge instruction comprehension by older adults in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Feasibility of adolescent contraceptive care in the pediatric emergency department

Implementing peer recovery coaches to increase linkages to recovery services among patients with substance use disorders seen in emergency departments

Improving clinician interpretation of emergency skeletal radiographs

Managing the swollen knee in a child

Olanzapine postinjection delirium/sedation syndrome after long-acting olanzapine depot injection presenting to the emergency department: practical guidelines for diagnosis and management

Person-centred decisions in emergency care for older people living with frailty: principles and practice

Precision emergency medicine

Psychometric validation of a patient-reported experience measure for older adults attending the emergency department: the PREM-ED 65 study

Real-world performance of a single-use, analyser-free, molecular point-of-care test for COVID-19 used in the emergency department: results of a prospective trial (ED-POC)

Stroke risk after emergency department treat-and-release visit for a fall

Systematic review of barriers, facilitators, and tools to promote shared decision making in the emergency department

Temperature control parameters are important: earlier preinduction is associated with improved outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Oct-Nov); Annals of Emergency Medicine (Nov-Dec); Emergency Medicine Journal (Nov-Dec); Journal of Infection (Nov); Stroke (Sep-Oct)

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