Code status conversations, and attitudes towards asthma: September 2025 Primary Survey

<p>"What is your understanding of your father's illness?" This is the kind of question that may be posed by emergency clinicians in the context of end-of-life care. But as a survey of Thai and American emergency departments finds, approaches to these conversations can be quite different globally. This episode also features another angle on end-of-life care, highlighting the persistent impact that deprivation has when it comes to likelihood of hospital conveyance. On a different subject, there is a qualitative study of the management of acute asthma presentations, seeking to find any marginal gains that may present a chance for optimisation. The fourth and final paper is about acute coronary syndromes in the emergency department, presenting some surprising statistics on length of stay.</p> <p>Read the highlights: <a href='https://emj.bmj.com/content/42/9/563'>September 2025 primary survey</a></p> <ul> <li><a href='https://emj.bmj.com/content/42/9/565'>Deprivation is associated with hosp...