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An update from July 2022 on refreshing the UK's emergency medicine research priorities through the James Lind Alliance. The post explains why the exercise was being repeated and points to related priority-setting work in prehospital care and major trauma.

A 2022 appraisal of the FORCE trial comparing an offer of bandaging with rigid immobilisation for children's distal radius buckle fractures. It examines pain outcomes, treatment preferences and how the trial design reflects conversations with children and families.

Iain Beardsell and Simon Carley review May 2022 on the St Emlyn's blog and podcast. The episode includes routes into academic emergency medicine and a look ahead to plans for the year.

Natalie May shares learning from the first day of ICEM 2022 in Melbourne. Topics include global health and pandemic response, cardiac arrest research, resuscitation in settings with limited resources and the need to rethink trauma care for older patients.

Day two of ICEM 2022 in Melbourne brought together health equity, cardiology and leadership. Natalie May reflects on care for marginalised communities, gender equity, troponin testing and extracorporeal CPR, drawing out lessons from the conference sessions.

A 2022 journal club examining the LOVIT trial of intravenous vitamin C in ICU patients with sepsis receiving vasopressors. It reviews death and persistent organ dysfunction outcomes, and reflects on how early enthusiasm for a treatment should be tested by stronger evidence.