Journal update monthly top five

Introduction This month’s update is from the emergency department and critical care unit at Salford Care Organisation, within the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust. We used a multimodal search strategy, drawing on free open-access medical education resources and focused literature searches. We identified the five most interesting and relevant papers (decided by consensus, with editorial oversight) and highlight the main findings, key limitations and clinical bottom line for each paper. The papers are ranked as Worth a peek: interesting, but not yet ready for prime time Head turner: new concepts Game changer: this paper could/should change practice. Peri-intubation hypoxia after delayed versus rapid sequence intubation in critically injured patients on arrival to trauma triage: a randomized controlled trialTopic: rapid sequence inductionOutcome rating: head turner Conventional rapid sequence induction (RSI) is a familiar technique for definitive airway management in the agitated...

Source: Emergency Medicine Journal - June 22, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Horner, D., Ambrose, C., Mills, L., Blevings, R., Raza, S., Ibrahim, E., Kilgour, P. M., Prager, G. Tags: Journal update Source Type: research