Virchester Journal Club 2014. St.Emlyn's

Here we collate the list of papers appraised at the Virchester Journal Club each year. Links will take you to the relevant blog post. Over the year we scan many journals to ensure that our team keeps up to date with all that is current in Emergency Medicine.


Date	Journal	Paper	Journal Club review
Jan 2014	NEJM	Pretreatment with prasugrel in non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes	ACCOAST-ed
Jan 2014	NICE	NICE head injury guidelines	JC: Updated NICE Head Injury Guidelines – Worth a Scan?
Feb 2014	LANCET	Reduction of adverse effects from IV acetylcysteine treatment for paracetamol poisoning: a randomised controlled trial	Should we halve the time of acetylcysteine infusions for Paracetamol OD? St.Emlyn’s
March 2014	NEJM	A randomised trial of protocol based care for early septic shock	Is Early Goal Directed Therapy dead? St.Emlyn’s
March 2014	JAMA	Mortality related to severe sepsis and septic shock among critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand 2000-2012	What has an awesome NNT of 5.8 for severe sepsis? St.Emlyn’s
March 2014	Resuscitation	Resuscitation highlights of 2013 Parts 1 and 2	Rapid update on the resus pearls of 2013. St.Emlyn’s
March 2014	Eur J Emer Med	Rotational thrombolelastometry produces potentially clinical useful results within 10 min in bleeding emergency department patients: the DEUCE study0	ROTEM for ED coagulopathy detection. St.Emlyn’s
Apr 2014	EMJ	The accuracy of existing prehospital triage tools for injured children in England: an analysis of department data.	Paediatric Major Trauma Triage
Apr 2014	Ann Emerg Med	Comparison of PECARN, CATCH, and CHALICE Rules for Children With Minor Head Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study	Duel of the Rules: Which decision rule for head injury in children?
May 2014	Am J Emerg Med	An ED scribe program is able to improve throughput time and patient satisfaction	Scribes in the ED
May 2014	Ann Surg	Saline versus Plasma-Lyte A in initial resuscitation of trauma patients: a randomized trial.	Plasma-lyte or Saline in Trauma? St. Emlyn’s
May 2014	Crit Care Med	Clinical outcomes, predictors, and prevalence of anterior pituitary disorders following traumatic brain injury: a systematic review.	Anterior pituitary disorder following head injury. St.Emlyn’s
May 2014	Heart	The Manchester Acute Coronary Syndromes (MACS) decision rule for suspected cardiac chest pain: derivation and external validation	The MACS Rule: Immediate ‘rule in’ and ‘rule out’ for suspected cardiac chest pain
May 2014	J Acute Care and Trauma Surgery	Do all patients benefit from tranexamic acid?	JC: Tranexamic acid – does the evidence stack up?
June 2014	Ophthalmology	Ocular Blast Injuries in Mass-Casualty Incidents: The Marathon Bombing in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Fertilizer Plant Explosion in West, Texas.	JC Ocular trauma in blast injuries
June 2014	Circulation	Waveform analysis-guided treatment versus a standard shock first protocol for the treatment of out of hospital cardiac arrest presenting in ventricular fibrillation: results of an international randomized controlled trial.	JC: Does wave form analysis improve outcome in VF arrest? St.Emlyn’s
June 2014	Mayo Clinic Proceedings	A decade of reversal: an analysis of 146 contradicted medical practices.	JC: A decade of reversal: an analysis of 146 contradicted medical practices.
July 2014	Injury	Massive transfusion in paediatric and adolescent trauma patients: Incidence, patient profile, and outcomes prior to a massive transfusion protocol	JC: Paediatric massive transfusion. St.Emlyn’s
July 2014	Lancet	Point-of-care ultrasonography in patients admitted with respiratory symptoms: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial	JC: POCUS for the breathless patient. St.Emlyn’s
August 2014	Injury	A simple tool to identify elderly patients with a surgically important acute subdural haematoma.	JC: When a subdural needs surgery in the elderly. St. Emlyn’s
August 2014	Cochrane	Advanced training in trauma life support for ambulance crews	JC: Is there any point teaching paramedics? St.Emlyn’s
Sept 2014	Pediatr Emerg Care. 2014	Impact of follow-up calls from the pediatric emergency department on return visits within 72 hours: a randomized controlled trial.	JC – Just Checking: Do Follow-Up Phone Calls Reduce Reattendance to PED?
Oct 2014	NEJM	USS for Nephrolithiasis	JC: Should USS be first investigation for renal colic? St.Emlyn’s
November 2014	Intensive Care Medicine	Impact of intra-arrest hypothermia in cardiac arrest. An RCT	JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 3. Hypothermia at St.Emlyn’s
Dec 2014	NEJM	MR CLEAN Study	JC: Intra-arterial treatment for Stroke
Dec 2014	EurJEMergMed	Chest pain: if it hurts a lot is it a heart attack?	JC: Is severe chest pain more likely to be a heart attack?
Nov 2014	Lancet	Mechanical versus manual chest compression for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (PARAMEDIC): a pragmatic, cluster randomised controlled trial	JC: PARAMEDIC trial m-CPR at St.Emlyn’s
Dec 2014	NEJM	A Randomized Trial of Intraarterial Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke	JC: Intra-arterial treatment for Stroke
Dec 2014	Acad Emerg Med	A randomized controlled trial of the effects of a brief intervention to increase chlamydia and gonorrhea testing uptake among young adult female emergency department patients.	JC: STI’s at Christmas. St.Emlyn’s
Dec 2014	NEJM	Very Early Administration of Progesterone for Acute Traumatic Brain Injury	JC: Progesterone’s pleiotropic failure in head injury. St.Emlyn’s

Virchester Journal Club 2014. St.Emlyn’s

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