Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning prehospital resuscitation and critical care, pediatric emergency stewardship, and emerging procedural and metabolic updates in the emergency department. Let's dive in. Let's begin in the prehospital arena, where the choice of resuscitation fluid and advanced interventions in hemorrhagic shock remain…

This week's papers:

Efficacy and safety of prehospital whole blood resuscitation in traumatic haemorrhagic shock a systematic review and meta-analysis. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026
In children presenting to the paediatric emergency department (PED) with acute gastroenteritis, does the use of probiotics lead to a shorter duration of diarrhoeal symptoms? — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026
Point-of-care ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia: pericapsular nerve group (PENG) block for patients with hip fracture. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026
Just the facts: Novel management updates of diabetic ketoacidosis in the emergency department. — CJEM 2026
Initial vascular access for neonatal resuscitation: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026
Prehospital resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) in patients with major trauma and cardiac arrest: a systematic review. — Prehospital emergency care 2026
Dissociation between resuscitation success and neurological recovery in nursing home cardiac arrest: A propensity-matched analysis. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026
Determinants of Timely Prehospital Thrombolysis Administration within a Pharmacoinvasive STEMI Network in Victoria, Australia. — Prehospital emergency care 2026