Here are the papers that caught our eye over the last month, many of these will go onto form the topics for our monthly podcasts and topics which you can subscribe to here.

Airway

Redirecting the Laryngoscopy Debate and Optimizing Emergency Airway Management. George Kovacs. Acad Emerg Med. 2020

Cardiac Arrest

The association between ACLS guideline deviations and outcomes from in-hospital cardiac arrest. Conor P Crowley. Resuscitation. 2020

Double Sequential Defibrillation for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review. Charles D Deakin. Resuscitation. 2020

Respiratory

The Prognostic Value of Syncope on Mortality in Patients With Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Maria A de Winter. Ann Emerg Med. 2020

Thoracics

Finger thoracostomy in patients with chest trauma performed by paramedics on a helicopter emergency medical service. Liam Hannon. Emerg Med Australas. 2020

Other

Ability of triage nurses to predict, at the time of triage, the eventual disposition of patients attending the emergency department (ED): a systematic literature review and meta-analysis. Michael Anis Mihdi Afnan. Emerg Med J. 2020

We look forward to bringing you some of these papers in future podcasts, if there’s anything in particular you’d like to hear then leave a comment at the bottom of the page.