Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we are covering six notable papers spanning critical care and resuscitation, diagnostic imaging pathways, and the safety of our daily emergency department procedures. Let's dive in. We begin with diagnostic pathways and the ongoing effort to balance clinical safety with the overuse of advanced imaging. For years, emergency clinicians have reli…

This week's papers:

YEARS Algorithm for Diagnosis of Suspected Pulmonary Embolism in Patients With Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026
RhD-Positive Transfusion in Females of Childbearing Potential in Hemorrhagic Shock: Risk, Reality, and Policy. — Prehospital Emergency Care 2026
Systematic review of diagnostic test accuracy of point-of-care gastric ultrasound by emergency physicians. — Internal and Emergency Medicine 2026
Clinician characteristics associated with CT use in children with minor blunt head trauma at very low risk for clinically important traumatic brain injuries. — Emergency Medicine Journal 2026
Discordant Neuron-Specific Enolase and Neurologic Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Decade-Long Analysis. — Resuscitation 2026
Ultrasound-guided peripheral IV placement practices: A national survey of gel and probe cover use. — The American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2026