Emj Podcast

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the February 2018 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal, this month, picked by Simon himself. Read the primary survey here: http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/73 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: Understanding cardiac troponin part 1: avoiding troponinitis - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/120 Calculating the proportion of avoidable attendances at UK emergency departments: analysis of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Sentinel Site Survey data - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/114 Elevated mortality among weekend hospital admissions is not associated with adoption of seven day clinical standards - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/108 Pre-emptive ice cube cryotherapy for reducing pain from local anaesthetic injections for simple lacerations: a randomised controlled trial - http://emj.bmj.com/content/35/2/103 Use of the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio of heart rate variability to predict s