March 2018: celebrating 50 years of Emergency Medicine in the UK

Richard Body, EMJ Deputy Editor, and Simon Carley, EMJ Associate Editor, talk through the highlights of the March 2018 edition of the journal, celebrating 50 years of the UK's Emergency Medicine. It is a special podcast presenting a collection of amazing articles that tell the story of where we have come from, where we are and where we are going. It's not all opinion though. We have some fantastic papers this month including an RCT on the use of ice to reduce the pain of laceration repair (Intravenous versus oral paracetamol for acute pain in adults in the emergency department setting: a prospective, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/179). Read the primary survey here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/135 Details of the other papers mentioned in this podcast can be found below: Being a pioneer in emergency medicine - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/142 Emergency medicine research: how far have we come and where are we heading? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/149 How can emergency physicians harness the power of new technologies in clinical practice and education? - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/156 Looking back and forward: emergency medicine in its 50th year - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/137 The feasibility of an interactive voice response system (IVRS) for monitoring patient safety after discharge from the ED - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/180 Understanding cardiac troponin part 2: early rule out of acute coronary syndrome - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/192 Ionised calcium levels in major trauma patients who received blood en route to a military medical treatment facility - emj.bmj.com/content/35/3/176

Read the full March issue of EMJ here: emj.bmj.com/content/35/3.