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This discussion of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges’ 2025 guidance explores how death is defined, diagnosed and confirmed. It considers neurological criteria, evolving technology and the practical and ethical questions these changes raise for emergency and intensive care teams.

The St Emlyn’s podcast delves into moral injury in healthcare with Dr. Caroline Leech. Learn how repeated exposure to ethical dilemmas leads to distress and explore strategies to mitigate its impact on clinicians.

What does the evidence say about timing and outcomes after resuscitative hysterotomy for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? This appraisal of a systematic review separates maternal and neonatal outcomes and examines the limitations of the evidence behind familiar timing rules.

Should trauma resuscitation pay more attention to diastolic blood pressure? Simon Carley discusses a physiological argument for rethinking systolic targets, its links with cardiac-arrest research and the evidence still needed before clear diastolic targets can be established.

This second collection of research from The Big Sick 2025 brings together brief appraisals of trials covering transfusion in brain injury, preoxygenation, sepsis care and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The post considers what the findings might mean for practice and where uncertainty remains.