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EMWhat’s worth reading in Emergency Medicine, this week.
Keeping up with the EM literature is a lot. Each week, Max Zworth curates and appraises the week’s most important EM content, so you know exactly what’s worth reading, and why.
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View all →Issue #18·August 4, 2026
This Week at a Glance
- ⭐Highlight of the Week: Antibiotic treatment of acute otitis media: has watchful waiting gone with the diagnosis?
- 📡FOAM Radar: Acute Valvular Emergencies
- 🌐Major Journals Scan: Classic Hodgkin Lymphoma: A Review
Issue #17·July 27, 2026
This Week at a Glance
- ⭐Highlight of the Week: Safety of outpatient management of pulmonary embolism diagnosed in the emergency department
- 📌Important EM Papers: Inhaled isopropyl alcohol for substance-related nausea in adults at electronic dance music festivals: a randomized controlled trial
- 📡FOAM Radar: PERC-Peds Rule Could Change How Children Are Evaluated for Pulmonary Embolism: A PECARN Study
- 📋Guidelines Update: Rapid Endovascular Hemorrhage Control in Trauma: a Joint Position Statement from the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma and the Society of Interventional Radiology
- 🔗Adjacent Specialties: Aggressive Versus Conservative Blood Pressure Reduction in Acute Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Issue #16·July 20, 2026
This Week at a Glance
- ⭐Highlight of the Week: Is non-supine positioning preferable in patients requiring intubation in the emergency department?
- 📌Important EM Papers: Ventilation parameters during Advanced Life Support in cardiac arrest (CAvent): A multicentre observational cohort study
- 📡FOAM Radar: HFNC vs. NIV in Acute Cardiogenic Pulmonary Edema: Go with the Flow?
- 🌐Major Journals Scan: Hip Fractures: A Review
- ⚠️Methodology Flag: Lidocaine Versus Amiodarone in Patients With Shockable Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Target Trial Emulation