Current postgraduate training in emergency medicine in the Nordic countries.

Background: Emergency Medicine (EM) is an independent specialty in all five Nordic countries. This study aims to evaluate the structure of post-graduate EM training in the area.

Methods: A leading hospital or hospitals in EM training in each country were identified.

Template for uniform reporting of emergency department measures, consensus according to the Utstein method.

Objective: To develop a template for uniform reporting of standardized measuring and describing of care provided in the emergency department (ED).

Methods: An international group of experts in emergency medicine, with broad experience from different clinical settings, met in Utstein, Norway. Through a consensus process, a limited number of measures that would accurately describe an ED were chosen and a template was developed.

The Tragically Hip: Trauma in Elderly Patients.

Old age is a risk factor for poor outcome in trauma patients, as a result of undertriage and the presence of occult life-threatening injuries. The mechanisms of injury for geriatric trauma differ from those in younger patients, with a much higher incidence of low-impact trauma, especially falls from a low height. Frailty is a risk factor for severe injury after minor trauma, and caring for these patients require a multidisciplinary team with both trauma and geriatric expertise.

Are there too few women presenting at emergency medicine conferences?

Introduction: There is a perception that women are under-represented as speakers at emergency medicine (EM) conferences. We aimed to evaluate the ratio of male to female speakers and the proportion of presenting time by gender at major international EM conferences.

Methods: Conference programmes of the major English-speaking EM conferences occurring from 2014 to 2015 were obtained.