September 2, 2026
When an emergency department stay adds harm
Frailty demands attention to delirium, baseline function and the harms of prolonged waiting.
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September 1, 2026
When ECT’s history shapes care
ECT discussions work better when clinicians address history, stigma and memory risks plainly.
Read briefingAugust 30, 2026
When can paediatric pulmonary embolism testing stop?
A negative rule helps only after the child is already judged genuinely low risk.
Read briefingAugust 26, 2026
Papilloedema can threaten vision with normal acuity
The urgent task is to confirm raised pressure, detect field loss and protect sight.
Read briefingAugust 13, 2026
Superwarfarin bleeding, hyponatraemia, infantile spasms and PEs
Structured pulmonary embolism assessment and proportionate interpretation of complement-targeted myasthenia gravis evidence.
Read briefingAugust 11, 2026
Hypokalaemia, sleep apnoea, liquid biopsy and digital surgery
ECG risk and replacement in hypokalaemia, sleep studies, and how digital surgery can support safer learning and workflow.
Read briefingAugust 2, 2026
Autonomic receptors, bronchodilators, beta blockers and cholinergic toxicity
Adrenergic and muscarinic receptor mapping explains bronchodilators, beta blockers, atropine, cholinesterase inhibitors and cholinergic poisoning.
Read briefingAugust 1, 2026
Sepsis reassessment, necrotising soft tissue infection and post-arrest oxygen
Repeated sepsis reassessment, esuspected necrotising infection and oxygen titration after arrest
Read briefingJuly 31, 2026
Bacterial meningoencephalitis, sarcoidosis, health anxiety and adolescent knee pain
Apparent stroke with fever may be bacterial meningoencephalitis, while evolving systemic clues can overturn a sarcoidosis diagnosis.
Read briefingJuly 30, 2026
Cardiometabolic HFpEF, delayed headache, and sleep–weight risk
HFpEF in obesity, residual risk after delayed sudden headache, evidence-based paediatric imaging.
Read briefingJuly 26, 2026
Heart failure prevention, emergency-team performance and clinician wellbeing
Cardiometabolic risk and early cardiac remodelling with emergency-team coordination, uncertainty and clinician wellbeing.
Read briefingJuly 21, 2026
Awake intubation, resuscitative thoracotomy, legal woes and kratom withdrawal
Physiology-led awake intubation and thoracotomy selection shape the acute learning, with ctDNA surveillance, kratom withdrawal and lipid-risk assessment
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