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Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning prehospital care, psychiatric emergencies, and broader health systems topics. Let's dive in. We start in the prehospital environment, with four papers looking at everything from dispatch to treatment and even the cleanliness of the rig. Three of these come from Prehospital Emergency Care. First, let's…This week's papers:A pilot randomized trial of ketamine for suicidal ideation in a pediatric emergency department. — CJEM 2026Medical Screening of Adult Psychiatric Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department. — Annals of emergency medicine 2026Medically tailored meals receipt and healthcare utilization and costs in Massachusetts' Medicaid demonstration. — Nature medicine 2026Refreshing the paediatric emergency medicine research priorities across the UK and Ireland. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026Service Ready Ambulance Surfaces and Emergency Medical Services Clinicians are Routinely Contaminated with Clinically Important Pathogens. — Prehospital emergency care 2026The NIH 2025 Public Access Policy: Immediate access, unequal costs. — PLoS medicine 2026External Validation of the SCARE Score for Predicting Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients Calling Emergency Medical Communication Centers: A Prospective Multicenter Study. — Prehospital emergency care 2026A Dose of Delay: Emergency Department Boarding and Early Clinical Deterioration. — Annals of emergency medicine 2026Prehospital Outcomes Associated with an Initial Strategy of Intranasal versus Intramuscular Naloxone Administration by EMS Clinicians: A Nationwide Cohort Study. — Prehospital emergency care 2026Use of Double Sequential External Defibrillation in the United States Before and After the DOSE VF Randomized Clinical Trial. — Prehospital emergency care 2026Listen at AudioScholar

Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advances in cardiac arrest care, operational challenges in the ED and prehospital setting, and a look at the future of our specialty. Let's dive in. Innovations in Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation We start this week in the prehospital environment, with four new papers from the journal *Resuscitation* that…This week's papers:Accuracy of major trauma triage using the MATTS tool: a cohort study. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026Airway management with a supraglottic airway device during resuscitation by basic life support providers: a systematic review. — Resuscitation 2026Activation of Community First Responders to Pediatric Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests in Denmark. — Resuscitation 2026Estimated survival gains from pulselessness-detection technologies in unwitnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Western Australia: a simulation study. — Resuscitation 2026Naloxone administration associated with improved survival in PEA out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. — Resuscitation 2026AI-induced never-skilling in medical education. — Nature medicine 2026Point-of-care ultrasound by trained emergency physicians versus radiologists for deep vein thrombosis diagnosis: a prospective blinded study on diagnostic accuracy and time efficiency. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026A Dose of Delay: Emergency Department Boarding and Early Clinical Deterioration. — Annals of emergency medicine 2026Updated trends in the global prevalence and burden of mental disorders, 1990-2023: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. — Lancet (London, England) 2026Professionalism in Emergency Medical Services: A People-Centered Approach to Prehospital Care-A Position Statement and Resource Document. — Prehospital emergency care 2026Listen at AudioScholar

Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning new findings in resuscitation, strategies for optimizing cardiac arrest care, and important updates on improving our clinical systems and workflows. Let's dive in. Our first theme covers major intervention trials that challenge some of our current practices and offer new directions for care. We'll star…This week's papers:Point-of-care ultrasound by trained emergency physicians versus radiologists for deep vein thrombosis diagnosis: a prospective blinded study on diagnostic accuracy and time efficiency. — Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2026Integrated CPR coach and compressor training improves CPR quality in a pediatric emergency department. — Resuscitation 2026The FaciLItated hospital-based ECPR via Helicopter Transport (FLIGHT-to-ECPR) study. — Resuscitation 2026Emergency department boarding and occupancy differ in their association with early in-hospital mortality: A multicenter cohort. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026Prehospital Resuscitation with Type O Whole Blood for Trauma and Hemorrhage. — The New England journal of medicine 2026Azithromycin for Preschoolers with Wheezing in the Emergency Department. — The New England journal of medicine 2026An Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Instructor. — JAMA internal medicine 2026Ticagrelor with aspirin dual antiplatelet therapy combined with intravenous thrombolysis in patients with ischaemic stroke in China (TAPIS): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised controlled trial. — Lancet (London, England) 2026The Role of Emergency Medical Services in Addressing Opioid Use Disorder-A Position Statement and Resource Document of NAEMSP. — Prehospital emergency care 2026Using Serious Games to Increase the Implementation of Trauma Triage Guidelines: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026Listen at AudioScholar

Welcome to This Week in Emergency Medicine. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning the emergency department's growing role in public health, key updates in core clinical practice for conditions like stroke and pneumonia, and a look at broader health policy. Let's dive in. The ED as a Public Health Frontline This week, several papers highlight the emergency department's unique positi…This week's papers:Casino schedules reduce inflammatory biomarkers and improve sleep in emergency medicine physicians during shift work. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026Self-collection for HPV testing among emergency department patients: A prospective, interventional, single-arm, feasibility study. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026Single-step versus multi-step intranasal naloxone devices for overdose response: A randomized usability study in an at-risk population. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026An Emergency Department Nudge-Based Strategy to Screen and Treat Patients With Alcohol Misuse. — Annals of emergency medicine 2026Systematic Review of Pediatric Ketamine in Emergency Department Procedural Sedation: Frequency and Predictors of Adverse Events. — Annals of emergency medicine 2026A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Digital Patient Decision Tool to Increase Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in the Emergency Department. — Annals of emergency medicine 20262025 guideline updates for community-acquired pneumonia diagnosis and management. — The American journal of emergency medicine 2026Endovascular Treatment of Medium-Vessel-Occlusion Strokes. — The New England journal of medicine 2026Rwanda's lessons for strengthening Africa's response to current Marburg virus disease outbreaks. — The Lancet. Global health 2026Telemedicine Policy and Practice: A Position Paper From the American College of Physicians. — Annals of internal medicine 2026Listen at AudioScholar