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

Emergency Medicine current awareness bulletin

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October 2025

Acute coronary syndrome rule-out strategies in the emergency department: an observational evaluation of clinical effectiveness and current UK practice

Adult and pediatric pain management for burn injuries: a global survey of burn care providers

Are acute asthma presentations to the emergency department an opportunity for optimising long-term management? A qualitative study on beliefs and behaviours of healthcare professionals

Bacterial contamination of ultrasound probes in emergency departments: a multi-centre observational study

Bed frames for adults in acute medical or surgical hospital wards: late-stage assessment (new NICE guidance HTE33)

Characteristics and outcomes of emergency department patients who did not wait for treatment: a state-wide data linkage analysis from New South Wales Australia

Drivers of low-value diagnostic tests in emergency medicine practice: a qualitative descriptive study

Emergency department survey of vaccination knowledge, vaccination coverage, and willingness to receive vaccines in an emergency department among underserved populations — eight U.S. cities, April–December, 2024

Emergency medical service use for acute coronary syndrome in culturally and linguistically diverse immigrant populations

Emergency Medical Services response to wildfires from a public health perspective: a systematic review

Factors affecting diagnostic imaging decision-making in the emergency department during day and night shifts

First aid training for laypeople (new Cochrane intervention review)

Hepatitis C screening in emergency departments: the DETECT Hep C randomized clinical trial

How do we avoid being accused of ‘playing God’? Approaches to information provision for relatives in the era of emergency waiver of consent

Improving emergency department prescribing of anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation through an iterative quality improvement process

Improving the accuracy of emergency department clinicians in detecting SARS-COV-2 on chest X-rays using a bespoke virtual training platform

Initial clinical impressions are absent in around a quarter of adult emergency department patient consultations: let's get back to basics

Lived experience of caring for dying Muslim patients in emergency room: a phenomenological study

Multidose ondansetron after emergency visits in children with gastroenteritis

On the backseat: analyzing motorcycle passenger injuries in children

Patients discharged to police custody after paramedic evaluation: an observational cohort study

Patterns of severe burn injury in adults throughout the year

Practitioner experiences of developing and implementing two UK ED-based hospital violence intervention programmes: a process evaluation

Prehospital blood pressure in acute stroke

Prophylactic drain placement after emergency general surgery procedures? A scoping review of the literature challenging common practice

Reducing unnecessary imaging in ankle and foot trauma

Staff and referrer experiences and challenges with a new emergency department avoidance service for older people: a qualitative study

Why ultrasound is the missing piece of the puzzle in the imaging and management pathway of acute ankle injuries

Sources

American Journal of Surgery, The (Sep); BMC Medical Education (Aug); BMJ, The (Sep); Burns (Aug); Clinical Imaging (Sep-in progress); Cochrane Library (Aug-Sep); Emergency Medicine Australasia (Aug); Emergency Medicine Journal (Aug-Sep); Heart, Lung and Circulation (Aug); JAMA (Aug); Journal of Hospital Infection (Sep); Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Aug); NEJM (Jul); Omega (Aug)

August 2025

Bridging the divide: strengthening EMS decision-making for paediatric head injuries

Clinical decision instruments for predicting mortality in patients with cirrhosis seeking emergency department care

Cooling in context: consensus statement on the prehospital management of exertional heat illness for the UK Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care – see also: Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care: consensus statement on the prehospital management of exertional heat illness

Emergency department visits for medication-related events with vs without pharmacist intervention: the URGEIM randomized clinical trial

Factors influencing paramedic conveyance decisions when attending children with minor head injury: a qualitative study

Food insecurity and clinical outcomes in surgical trauma patients

Global health experience of staff working in UK emergency care: a reflexive thematic analysis

“He was not listening to hear me”: parent experiences with communication, inclusion, and marginalization in the pediatric emergency department

Head injury in older people taking anticoagulants

Identifying and profiling prearrival characteristics of avoidable emergency department visits transported by paramedics: a cohort study using linked prehospital and hospital data

Impact of an antibiotic stewardship programme in the emergency department of a secondary hospital

Optimal timing for epinephrine administration in adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective observational study

Suicidal thoughts and behaviors among gender-minority adolescents in the emergency department

A survey of major incident preparedness in English type 1 emergency departments

Teaching mass casualty incident management to senior medical students by three-dimensional tabletop exercise without lecture

Trends in clinical outcomes after major emergency abdominal surgery in Denmark, data from 2002-2022

Trends in paramedic-to-general practitioner referrals following the COVID-19 pandemic and the introduction of a virtual emergency department: an interrupted time series analysis

Sources

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)

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