Welcome to the September 2022 issue of the Emergency Medicine Journal . As you settle back into reality after those heady summer days, settle into rotations and get ready for conference season, we have some fabulous papers in this edition for you to enjoy. Please do check them all out, take them to your journal clubs and tune into our podcast to hear what our team make of this latest evidence. I always wonder whether we really need to use sterile gloves for suturing. I’ve seen evidence to suggest that tap water is as good as sterile water for cleaning simple wounds. How about the gloves? This month, we see the results of a large randomised controlled trial comparing sterile and non-sterile gloves for patients with traumatic wounds in three Dutch Emergency Departments. The findings are very interesting. This was a non-inferiority trial and the authors note that they finished recruitment prior to obtaining their full sample size. However, you’ll see that they did actually demonstrate non-inferiority: non-sterile gloves were found to …

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初步调查：本期亮点

欢迎来到急诊医学杂志 2022 年 9 月号。当您在那些令人兴奋的夏日之后重新回到现实中，适应轮换并为会议季节做好准备时，我们在这个版本中有一些精彩的论文供您欣赏。请务必检查它们，将它们带到您的期刊俱乐部并收听我们的播客，以了解我们的团队对这一最新证据的看法。我总是想知道我们是否真的需要使用无菌手套进行缝合。我已经看到证据表明自来水在清洁简单伤口方面与无菌水一样好。手套呢？本月，我们看到了一项大型随机对照试验的结果，该试验比较了三个荷兰急诊科的外伤患者的无菌和非无菌手套。研究结果非常有趣。这是一项非劣效性试验，作者指出，他们在获得完整样本量之前完成了招募。但是，您会看到它们确实证明了非劣效性：非无菌手套被发现...