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What’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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Issue #20·August 24, 2026

This Week at a Glance

  • 📌Important EM Papers: Ultrasound-guided pericapsular nerve group block versus intravenous morphine for pain management in older adults with hip fractures: a randomised controlled trial in the emergency department
  • 📡FOAM Radar: OMI-nously Yours: Is it time to re-think Code STEMI?
  • 🔗Adjacent Specialties: Evidence Update for Minimally Invasive Surgical Evacuation of Supratentorial Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association
  • 🌐Major Journals Scan: Diagnosis and management of acute hyperkalaemia
  • ⚠️Methodology Flag: Early red blood cell transfusion strategy in septic shock among patients with cancer: the TRANSPORT randomized controlled trial
Issue #19·August 17, 2026

This Week at a Glance

  • ⭐Highlight of the Week: Duration of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The ICECAP Randomized Clinical Trial
  • 📡FOAM Radar: EMCrit 431 – OB-EMCrit – Life-Threatening Post-Partum Hemorrhage (PPH) with Cho Espinoza
  • 🔗Adjacent Specialties: Corticosteroids in ARDS: old controversies, new insights, and future directions
  • ⚠️Methodology Flag: Effect of early versus delayed or no insulin therapy for moderate hyperglycemia in ICU patients: A target trial emulation
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