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Emergency Medicine Papers of the Week

The 20 most important new Emergency Medicine papers of the past week, ranked by potential impact. A new issue comes out every Monday, covering the previous Monday-to-Sunday week.

Nov 2 - 8, 2026 · Updated

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    Predictive Accuracy of The Surgical Apgar Score for Outcomes After Emergency Surgery at Yirol Hospital South Sudan: A Retrospective One Year Observational Study

    Methodology: This study employs a retrospective observational study design, analyzing data from patients who underwent emergency surgical procedures at Yirol Hospital over a 12-month period, covering 1 May 2025 to 1 May 2026 and encompassing a diverse cohort presenting with acute trauma and life-threatening surgical emergencies.

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    Undertreatment of Cervical Precancer Among Screen-Positive Women Living with HIV in Kenya

    We described screening results and the post-screening management cascade among WLWH receiving HIV care in Nairobi, Kenya.

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    Exchange of High-Frequency Medical Monitoring Data Using Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources for Interoperable Integration Into Clinical Practice and Research: Methodological Development Study

    Methods This study provides the FHIR package Time Series Integration and Data in Endpoints (TIDE), a collection of FHIR Release 4 artifacts for interoperable exchange and the standardization of high-frequency monitoring clinical data, using electroencephalography as the primary use case while remaining applicable to generic medical monitoring data.

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    Factors Associated with Patient Contact Management and Self-Reported Infection Risk Exposure Status Among Healthcare Workers: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study in Palu City, Indonesia

    This study aimed to analyze factors associated with patient contact management and self-reported infection-exposure risk status among healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Palu City, Indonesia. Methods: This quantitative retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted from April 2024 to July 2025 at 14 community health centers and one regional hospital in Palu City, Indonesia.

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    Psychosocial Intervention for Adolescents with Post-Semeru Disaster Trauma in The Huntap Bumi Semeru Damai Lumajang

    This community service applied a psychosocial intervention method to improve knowledge, stress management skills, and peer support using growth focus resilience questionsare.

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    Advancing Neonatal Care Through Non-invasive Biochemical Monitoring and Diagnostics

    This review maps neonatal biomarkers to saliva, sweat, tears, urine, and exhaled breath and to electrochemical, optical, and chemiresistive platforms, and compares their technical progress with the requirements of clinical use.

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    Living with Uncertainty After An Earthquake: Ambiguous Grief Among Relatives and Significant Others of Missing Persons

    This study explored ambiguous grief among 16 adults whose loved ones remained officially missing after the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquakes in Türkiye, with no recovered remains or formal confirmation of death.

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    Reversal of Trauma-induced Monocyte Paralysis By IFN-γ Fails to Prevent Ventilator-associated Pneumonia, Implicating Lymphoid Deficits in Infection Risk

    Although interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) has been reported to restore trauma-associated immune defects, the PREV-HAP trial (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04793568) did not show a benefit of IFN-γ on VAP prevention. To investigate the immunological basis of this therapeutic failure, we performed longitudinal high-dimensional immunoprofiling on 104 trial participants.

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    Colorimetric Sensor Arrays and Artificial Intelligence for Natural Product Quality Evaluation: From Cross-reactive Fingerprints to Analytical Validation

    This review critically examines CSA design, color-data acquisition, chemometric and AI-assisted analysis, analytical validation, and applications in natural product quality evaluation along the chain of "array response-color fingerprint-computational interpretation-quality decision-making."

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    Mesoscale Soft Robotics for Mechanically Perturbing and Functionally Monitoring Responses in Human Organoids

    Here, we present a mesoscale soft robotic organoid interface that enables programmable delivery of forces to organoids of diverse shapes, and to map electrophysiological activity and mechanical responses.

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    Post-ARDS Pulmonary Fibrosis: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Management

    This review systematically examines post-acute lung injury (ALI)/ARDS PF through three perspectives: pathogenesis, prediction and treatment.

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    Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Treatment for Traumatic Birth: The Experiences of Mothers and Partners

    This study explores the experiences of mothers who accessed EMDR following a traumatic birth, and their partners' perspectives.

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    Osteoimmuno-microbial Feedback Loops in Medication-related Osteonecrosis of The Jaw: from Dysbiosis to Persistent Structural Osteonecrosis

    To synthesize evidence on microbial dysbiosis, host immune dysregulation, and bone metabolic imbalance in MRONJ, and to propose an integrated osteoimmuno-microbial feedback framework.

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    The Future of AI in Critical Care: An Exploration in Ten Parables

    Through ten parables, we describe plausible benefits, harms, and trade-offs involving prognosis, monitoring, liability, research, clinical work, data governance, education, and triage.