Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang, and there is no one else sat here with me.

Rob Fenwick has not come on this one.

I'm all by myself.

But don't worry, there is no chance of getting rid of him for good.

He is definitely going to be back here in the next episode.

So this is just an extra podcast that we've slotted in.

It's taken from a talk I gave at the Grand Round and the Bristol

Royal Infirmary and it's on the top 10 papers in emergency medicine, 2016 to 2017. Before we start,

it's probably worth saying that there haven't been a phenomenal amount of game-changing papers

that have come out in this time period. But there have been

a lot of papers that provided some food for thought and certainly make us question the way we

practice in emergency medicine. As always, make sure you're going to have a look at the papers

yourself. You may well disagree with our take on the papers with one to two minutes per paper so make sure you go

and critically appraise the papers yourself because there's a lot more that we can cover in

just this short podcast but hopefully it will give you some more food for thought or some

spaced repetition on covering some ground that we've been over in the last 12 months so without

further ado let's crack on

with paper number one. So when you've got a patient in front of you who you want to

decompress their pneumothorax with a needle, what is the best anatomical space that you can go

for? Well, traditional teaching would have said the second intercostal space in the mid clavicular line.

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