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Top 10 papers from 2022-2023 for the SASEM 2023 conference in Jeddah.

Should patients with restored circulation after cardiac arrest bypass their nearest hospital for a specialist centre? This appraisal of the ARREST trial examines patients without ST elevation, the lack of a survival benefit and the limits of applying London's results elsewhere.

How accurately can prehospital clinicians recognise life-threatening injuries from clinical examination? This appraisal examines a retrospective trauma study, the limits of its diagnostic accuracy findings and why uncertainty should inform decisions without abandoning examination altogether.

How do you prepare a whole team for high-acuity, low-occurrence procedures? The third HALO article explores shared mental rehearsal, simulation, role clarity and debriefing, including how to support colleagues who encounter these procedures without prior preparation.

Iain and Simon review the St Emlyn's blog from June 2023, with a focus on critically ill patients in emergency and prehospital care. The episode includes AMAX4, the PATCH trial and highlights from the Wessex and Intensive Care Society conferences.

In a recorded CODA talk, Liz Crowe challenges how healthcare uses the term burnout. The accompanying commentary explores whether that label can obscure different workplace stressors, and considers meaning, teams and the need to understand what would actually improve working lives.