Primary Survey - the highlights of December 2021

BMJ talk medicine

Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through the highlights of the December 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the highlights: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/867 Details of the papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: Evaluation of a state law on opioid-prescribing behaviour and the void affecting codeine-containing antitussive syrup - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/889 We Need to Talk About Codeine: an Implementation Study to reduce the number of Emergency Department patients discharged on high-strength co-codamol using the Behaviour Change Wheel - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/895 Feasibility and usefulness of rapid 2-channel-EEG-monitoring (point-of-care EEG) for acute CNS disorders in the paediatric emergency department: an observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/919 Evaluating the utility of Rapid Response EEG in emergency care - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/923 Early warning scores to assess the probability of critical illness in patients with COVID-19 - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/901 Agreement and predictive value of the Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale at emergency department triage - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/868 Association of advanced age with intubation-related adverse events in the emergency department: a multicentre prospective observational study - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/874 Improving outcomes for older people in the emergency department: a review of reviews - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/882 Identifying opportunities for health promotion and intervention in the ED - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/12/927