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Emergency Medicine — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed emergency medicine literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

  1. 6d ago

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Sep 8, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning time-critical prehospital and vascular care, resuscitation physiology, and the ongoing search for risk scores that actually change what we do at the bedsi… This week's papers: 1. Efficacy and safety analysis of tenecteplase vs. alteplase in very elderly patients with acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis of random… — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026 2. Predicting the Prehospital Blood Transfusion Need in a Large Metropolitan Center. — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 3. Prehospital versus in-hospital unfractionated heparin in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a sy… — European Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 4. Modified HAS-BLED score for predicting delayed intracranial hemorrhage in DOAC-treated geriatric head trauma. — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 5. Comparative performance of pre-interventional prognostic scores in predicting 30-day mortality and ICU admission in gastrointestinal bleeding. — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026 6. Trends in the incidence and outcomes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation-induced consciousness in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective study. — Resuscitation 2026 7. Pulseless electrical activity versus asystole as initial pulseless rhythm in children: challenging convention regarding non-shockable rhythms. — Resuscitation 2026 8. Hypoxemic respiratory failure in patients with acute heart failure. — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026 9. Use of point-of-care ultrasound in predicting difficult intubations in the emergency department. — Emergency Medicine Journal 2026 10. Emergency department ankle burden score (ED-ABS): A bedside injury-burden score for acute ankle trauma. — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/kyy92p9e9n

  2. Sep 1

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Sep 1, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning chest pain and syncope pathways, resuscitation science, and prehospital trauma and department flow. Let's dive in. We start with three large trials that… This week's papers: 1. Safety and efficacy of the 0/1 h pathway for myocardial infarction in the emergency department: an international, pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised,… — The Lancet 2026 2. Targeted Use of Computed Tomographic Coronary Angiography in Acute Chest Pain — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 3. Immediate Ambulatory Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Syncope — New England Journal of Medicine 2026 4. Physiotherapist-led care for musculoskeletal conditions in the emergency department (RESHAP-ED): a randomised controlled trial with economic evaluation — The Lancet 2026 5. Cerebral Tissue Oxygen Saturation at Defibrillation and Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest With a Shockable Rhythm — Resuscitation 2026 6. Effect of Body Position on Chest Compression Quality During CPR in an Obesity Simulation Model: A Randomized Crossover Trial — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 7. Early management of crush injury and crush syndrome: a Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care consensus statement — Emergency Medicine Journal 2026 8. Is intranasal adrenaline effective for the treatment of anaphylaxis? — Emergency Medicine Journal 2026 9. Between Hemorrhage and Harm: Complications of the Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet-Stabilized — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 10. Missing triage pain-score documentation and analgesic administration in adult trauma patients — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/q2h5n7bz98

  3. Aug 26

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Aug 26, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning procedural care and sedation, high-stakes airway and resuscitation practice, and the growing pressure on emergency departments to move faster with better… This week's papers: 1. Unscheduled Procedural Sedation Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus Guidelines, Part 2: Clinical Practice — Annals of Emergency Medicine 2026 2. Unscheduled Procedural Sedation Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus Guidelines, Part 1: Principles, Oversight, and Quality Monitoring — Annals of Emergency Medicine 2026 3. Emergency thoracotomy: how to do it in 2026 — Emergency Medicine Journal 2026 4. Effectiveness of the modified Valsalva maneuver vs the standard Valsalva maneuver for the conversion of supraventricular tachycardia to normal sinus rhythm in… — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026 5. Can point-of-care high sensitivity troponin improve efficiency: a multisite US study — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 6. Diagnosis and management of acute hyperkalaemia — BMJ 2026 7. Prehospital Emergency Cricothyroidotomy in Denmark: A Nationwide Cohort Study, 2016-2023 — Resuscitation 2026 8. Distal radius fractures: interspecialty agreement on reduction adequacy following emergency department reduction — CJEM 2026 9. Prospective evaluation of a large language model clinical decision support system in the emergency department — Nature Medicine 2026 10. A Multimodal Model Integrating Early Clinical and Biomarker Data to Predict 1-Year Outcomes after Pediatric Cardiac Arrest — Resuscitation 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/uh6vwmbkpz

  4. Aug 19

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Aug 19, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning cardiac arrest care from the bystander through to neuroprognostication, machine learning for risk stratification at the front door, and the emergency depa… This week's papers: 1. Validation of a machine learning model for predicting early deterioration in the emergency department. — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 2. Early Stratification of Risk for Poor Neurological Outcome After Cardiac Arrest Is Improved with Processed EEG Data — Resuscitation 2026 3. Arterial Blood Gas Parameters during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Sustained Return of Spontaneous Circulation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Preplan… — Resuscitation 2026 4. Performance of Termination-of-Resuscitation Rules in Foreign Body Airway Obstruction-Related Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Prospective Multicenter Registry… — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 5. Characterization of pulmonary embolism events in patients with suspected pneumonia. — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026 6. Evaluating the Effect of a Regional Training Initiative on Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Rates after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. — Resuscitation 2026 7. Association of Emergency Physician Critical Care Training on Outcomes after Non-traumatic Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA). — Resuscitation 2026 8. Structural brain lesions and delirium in geriatric emergency department patients: A matched case-control study. — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 9. Closing gaps in urban trauma systems: Outcomes of an inner-city community emergency department multidisciplinary trauma protocol. — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 10. The role of the emergency department in cancer diagnosis: comparing diagnostic and treatment intervals. — CJEM 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/2gkrv64zzz

  5. Aug 5

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Aug 5, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning critical airway and resuscitation strategies, time-sensitive vascular emergencies, and age-specific risk stratification in the emergency department. Let's… This week's papers: 1. Mechanical Versus Manual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Causing Traumatic Cardiothoracic and Abdominal Injuries: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review of Random… — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 2. Drip-and-Ship versus Mothership Model in Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Meta-Analysis Stratified by Stroke System Integration — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 3. Landmark Versus Ultrasound-Guided Identification of the Cricothyroid Membrane: A Randomized, Prospective Trial — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 4. High-Flow Nasal Cannula Therapy for Apneic Oxygenation during Rapid Sequence Induction in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 5. The Prevalence of Adverse Events After Prehospital Neuromuscular Blockade-Assisted Airway Management — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 6. Age as a Predictor of Mortality, Disability, or Need for Acute Resuscitative Care in Trauma Patients — Academic Emergency Medicine 2026 7. Time-Critical Diagnosis of Pediatric Testicular Torsion in a Tertiary Pediatric Emergency Setting: Integrating Clinical Predictors With Selective Doppler Ultra… — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 8. Evidence for Electrocardiographic Patterns Identifying Acute Coronary Occlusion in Non-ST-Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes: A Scoping Review — Academic Emergency Medicine 2026 9. Reducing Hyperoxemia in Mechanically Ventilated Emergency Department Patients: A Before-and-After Study — The Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026 10. Signs of Life During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Cohort Study — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/85hyt27xvu

  6. Jul 31

    This Week in Emergency Medicine — Jul 31, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning prehospital resuscitation and critical care, pediatric emergency stewardship, and emerging procedural and metabolic updates in the emergency department.… This week's papers: 1. Efficacy and safety of prehospital whole blood resuscitation in traumatic haemorrhagic shock a systematic review and meta-analysis. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026 2. In children presenting to the paediatric emergency department (PED) with acute gastroenteritis, does the use of probiotics lead to a shorter duration of diarrh… — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026 3. Point-of-care ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia: pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for patients with hip fracture. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026 4. Just the facts: Novel management updates of diabetic ketoacidosis in the emergency department. — CJEM 2026 5. Initial vascular access for neonatal resuscitation: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026 7. Prehospital resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in patients with major trauma and cardiac arrest: a systematic review. — Prehospital emergency care 2026 8. Dissociation between resuscitation success and neurological recovery in nursing home cardiac arrest: A propensity-matched analysis. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026 10. Determinants of Timely Prehospital Thrombolysis Administration within a Pharmacoinvasive STEMI Network in Victoria, Australia. — Prehospital emergency care 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/xt5beuqk3d

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Emergency Medicine — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed emergency medicine literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.