May 2017's Primary Survey

BMJ talk medicine

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the May 2017 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, starting with pregnancy problems: the management of severely injured or ill pregnant patients. Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/271. Details of the papers mentioned on this podcast can be found below: Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: faculty of prehospital care consensus guidelines - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/318; Management of pregnancy and obstetric complications in prehospital trauma care: prehospital resuscitative hysterotomy/perimortem caesarean section - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/326; Does end-tidal capnography confirm tracheal intubation in fresh-frozen cadavers? - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/315; Remifentanil for procedural sedation: a systematic review of the literature - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/294; The role of reduced heart rate volatility in predicting disposition from the emergency department - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/289; Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation probably good, but adoption should not be too fast and furious! - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/275; Emergency extracorporeal life support and ongoing resuscitation: a retrospective comparison for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/277; Progressive prediction of hospitalisation in the emergency department: uncovering hidden patterns to improve patient flow - http://emj.bmj.com/content/34/5/308.