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Anisa Jafar and Anthony Joseph work through a pregnant trauma patient's arrival, assessment and resuscitation. This 2021 overview covers team preparation, pregnancy-specific physiological considerations, fetal monitoring and obstetric complications, with maternal resuscitation at the centre of the approach.

Simon Carley's selection of ten trauma papers for the 2021 Trauma Care UK conference spans haemorrhage control, airway intervention and traumatic brain injury. The review considers what the findings add to practice and where trial design or uncertainty limits their interpretation.

Does fluid choice affect outcomes in intensive care? This 2021 appraisal of BaSICS compares Plasma-Lyte with 0.9% saline, examining 90-day mortality, infusion rates and subgroup findings while cautioning against generalising to every balanced solution or patient setting.

An August 2021 appraisal of the RECOVERY-RS preprint comparing CPAP, high-flow nasal oxygen and conventional oxygen for COVID-19 respiratory failure. It separates the findings on intubation from those on mortality and examines early stopping, crossover and possible treatment-decision bias.

What did emergency medicine trainees report in the 2020 EMTA survey? This review examines flexible working, protected development time, fatigue and bullying, alongside effective supervision and training opportunities, and asks departments to turn the findings into action.

A podcast round-up of the St Emlyn's blog from June and July 2021. The linked reading spans thunderstorm asthma, COVID-19 treatment trials, ultrasound in shock, post-arrest temperature management and equitable publishing, alongside education, research careers and medical fiction.