Emergency medicine: from the daily briefing

Every daily briefing item tagged emergency medicine, newest first. The weekly roundup is on the emergency medicine page.

• Oct 31, 2026AI chatbots recommend care costing 3.2 times what physicians ordered, mostly by adding tests at visits where doctors ordered noneShareEvidence
• Oct 31, 2026Congo's Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 confirmed cases, with nearly 5,000 deathsShareIncident
• Oct 30, 2026Faster 0/1-hour troponin pathways do not shorten emergency stays or raise discharges vs. 0/3-hour, Lancet meta-analysis of 110,933 visits findsShareEvidence
• Oct 29, 2026AI scribes cut emergency physicians' active note time 2.4 minutes across 20 departments without raising 72-hour returnsShareEvidence
• Oct 29, 2026Caring text messages beat support calls for suicidal adolescents at 12 months, while adults did better with calls, trial findsShareEvidence
• Oct 28, 2026UK review of 116 resuscitative thoracotomies finds 6.9% survived to discharge, best with cardiac tamponadeEvidence
• Oct 27, 2026Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak reaches 9,704 confirmed cases in Congo with imported cases in Kenya and Nigeria; Uganda orders 21-day quarantineShareIncident
• Oct 27, 2026Thrombectomy improves 90-day function in mild large-vessel stroke and at 24 to 72 hours, two NEJM trials from China findShareEvidence
• Oct 27, 2026FDA clears rapid combination test for COVID-19 and influenza A and B for professional settingsRegulation
• Oct 13, 2026Epic's pediatric sepsis alert flags 36% of sepsis cases in 166,943 visits to eight New York emergency departments, JAMA Pediatrics study findsShareEvidence
• Oct 13, 2026FDA early alert ties Philips Lumify handheld ultrasound software and cable faults to four deaths and eight serious injuriesShareIncident
• Oct 12, 2026FDA grants De Novo to BridgeSource's SmartRead, a handheld device that names a pacemaker or defibrillator maker in about 20 secondsShareRegulation