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

To intubate or not to intubate? Predictors of inhalation injury in burn-injured patients before arrival at the burn centre. Kylie Dyson. Emerg Med Australas. 2020

Critical Care

Prehospital sedation with ketamine vs. midazolam: Repeat sedation, intubation, and hospital outcomes. Dustin Holland. Am J Emerg Med. 2020

Elevated admission lactate levels in the emergency department are associated with increased 30-day mortality in non-trauma critically ill patients. Michael Bernhard. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2020

Trauma

Cutaneous impact location: a new tool to predict intracranial lesion among the elderly with mild traumatic brain injury? Xavier Dubucs. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 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.