Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering seven notable papers spanning post-cardiac-arrest critical care, risk stratification and decision rules in trauma, and equity and quality in acute pain and toxicology care. Let's dive in. We start with two large trials that both ask whether more intensive post-arrest intervention actually helps, and both answer no. In the New En…

This week's papers:

Conservative Oxygen for Unresponsive Patients after Cardiac Arrest — New England Journal of Medicine 2026
Duration of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: The ICECAP Randomized Clinical Trial — JAMA 2026
Risk stratification for significant acute traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in older adults after a ground-level fall: A prospective multicentre cohort study — PLOS Medicine 2026
Early vs delayed opioid administration for pediatric sickle cell vaso-occlusive crisis: A systematic review and meta-analysis — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Predicting Prehospital Blood Transfusion After Motor Vehicle Trauma — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026
Disparities in the use of anxiolysis or sedation for facial laceration repair in the pediatric emergency department — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026
Carbon monoxide-induced myocardial injury: Mechanisms, structural Remodeling, and clinical implications — American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026