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

Academic Emergency Medicine (Jun); BMC Medical Education (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun); Emergency Medicine Journal (Jun-Jul); Infectious Diseases Now (Jun); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jun); JAMA Surgery (May-Jun)

June 2025

Artificial intelligence–based clinical decision support in the emergency department: a scoping review

Blood transfusion strategies for major bleeding in trauma (new Cochrane intervention review)

Cardiac arrest during long-distance running races

Clinical pathways for secondary care and the effects on professional practice, patient outcomes, length of stay and hospital costs (updated Cochrane intervention review)

The cost of saving lives: complications arising from prehospital tourniquet application

Disposable female urinal bottle (the UniWee) improves patient experience for immobile women with lower limb fractures

Dying matters in the emergency department

Early detection, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of infection to avoid sepsis and septic shock in severely burned patients: a narrative review

Emergency clinician buprenorphine initiation, subsequent prescriptions, and continuous prescriptions

Emergency clinician perceptions of end-of-life care in Irish emergency departments: a cross-sectional survey

Endovascular thrombectomy with versus without intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke (new Cochrane intervention review)

Facilitators to implementing preventive health interventions for adolescents in the emergency department: a multicenter qualitative analysis

Global emergency medicine: a scoping review of the literature from 2023

Implementation of electronic triggers to identify diagnostic errors in emergency departments

Prehospital resuscitative thoracotomy for traumatic cardiac arrest

The role of dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) in emergency radiology: a visual guide to advanced diagnostics

Stop smoking intervention in emergency departments helps people quit

Variation in emergency department physician admitting practices and subsequent mortality

Video laryngoscopy may improve the intubation outcomes in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Sources

Academic Emergency Medicine (Apr-May); BMJ, The (May); Clinical Radiology (Apr); Cochrane Library (Apr-May); Emergency Medicine Journal (May); European Burn Journal (Mar); JAMA (Mar-Apr); JAMA Internal Medicine (Feb); JAMA Surgery (Apr)

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)

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