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Notes from the RACE session at RCEM CPD 2024 explore the history of race and medicine, differential attainment and the work of challenging inequality. The report brings together the speakers' perspectives, practical actions and further reading.

Selected learning from the English-language track of the 11th emergency medicine congress in Graz in 2024. This report covers cardiac arrest, trauma, sepsis and ultrasound, alongside reflections on research, teaching and learning from mistakes.

Does using a bougie improve first-pass success during tracheal intubation? This appraisal examines a systematic review and meta-analysis, considering the quality and variety of the included studies and how equipment, technique and clinical setting affect the interpretation.

Anisa Jafar explores how the language of global health can reinforce unequal relationships. She introduces Access-, Resource-, Context-limited Healthcare (ARC-H) as a way to focus on the setting and recognise the expertise of those already delivering care.

What happens to older patients who spend the night in the emergency department awaiting a ward bed? This appraisal examines a prospective cohort study linking overnight ED stays with in-hospital mortality, while considering confounding and the importance of comfort and dignity.

A review of an observational study comparing mechanical and manual CPR during in-hospital cardiac arrest. The appraisal examines survival outcomes and why patient selection, confounding and the timing of mechanical CPR make the results difficult to interpret.