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Simon Carley, Associate Editor of EMJ, talks through his highlights of the February 2021 edition of the Emergency Medicine Journal. Read the primary survey here - https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/87 Post-exertion oxygen saturation as a prognostic factor for adverse outcome in patients attending the emergency department with suspected COVID-19: a substudy of the PRIEST observational cohort study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/88 Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound in COVID-19 https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/94 Rise and fall of the aerosol box; and what we must learn from the adoption of untested equipment https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/109 COVID-19 aerosol box as protection from droplet and aerosol contaminations in healthcare workers performing airway intubation: a randomised cross-over simulation study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/111 Evaluation of a novel approach to recognising community-acquired paediatric sepsis at ED triage by combining an electronic screening algorithm with clinician assessment https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/132 Nurse practitioner administered point-of-care ultrasound compared with X-ray for children with clinically non-angulated distal forearm fractures in the ED: a diagnostic study https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/139 Emergency Medicine Journal COVID-19 monthly top five https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2/158 Read the full February issue here: https://emj.bmj.com/content/38/2