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Announcing the launch of In Review

BMC Emergency Medicine, in partnership with Research Square, is now offering In Review. Authors choosing this free optional service will be able to:

Share their work with fellow researchers to read, comment on, and cite even before publication
Showcase their work to funders and others with a citable DOI while it is still under review
Track their manuscript - including seeing when reviewers are invited, and when reports are received

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Featured article: Optimal assessment choreography for critically ill patients

This pilot simulation study was to determine the optimal choreography for evaluation of the critically ill patients. The results showed that a focused history can be done in either series or parallel to the primary survey, however, there is less mental demand and effort associated with a parallel choreography.

Content type: Research article
| 20 July 2019

Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana

Authors: Paa-Kwesi Blankson, Joachim K. A. Amoako, Kwaku Asah-Opoku, Francis Odei-Ansong and Margaret Y. Lartey
Content type: Case report
| 16 July 2019

The Emergency Medical System (EMS) response to Iraqi pilgrims’ bus crash in Iran: a case report

Authors: Meysam Safi Keykaleh and Sanaz Sohrabizadeh
Content type: Research article
| 9 July 2019

Routine creatine kinase testing does not provide clinical utility in the emergency department for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes

Authors: Evan J. Wiens, Jorden Arbour, Kristjan Thompson and Colette M. Seifer
Content type: Research article
| 28 June 2019

Public knowledge of people visiting Imam Reza hospital regarding stroke symptoms and risk factors

Authors: Elyar Sadeghi-Hokmabadi, Samad Shams Vahdati, Reza Rikhtegar, Khazar Ghasempour and Aysa Rezabakhsh
Content type: Research article
| 14 June 2019

Grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools for paediatric head injury: a new evidence-based approach

Authors: Mohamed Khalifa and Blanca Gallego

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Content type: Debate
| 7 October 2011

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

Authors: Ramesh P Aacharya, Chris Gastmans and Yvonne Denier
Content type: Research article
| 17 July 2007

A survey of knowledge, attitudes and practice of emergency contraception among university students in Cameroon

Authors: Eugene J Kongnyuy, Pius Ngassa, Nelson Fomulu, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Luc Kouam and Anderson S Doh
Content type: Research article
| 3 February 2011

Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop

Authors: Eric J Lavonas, Anne-Michelle Ruha, William Banner, Vikhyat Bebarta, Jeffrey N Bernstein, Sean P Bush, William P Kerns II, William H Richardson, Steven A Seifert, David A Tanen, Steve C Curry and Richard C Dart
Content type: Research article
| 2 August 2012

Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?

Authors: Khalid Ali, Ian Sammy and Paula Nunes
Content type: Research article
| 13 December 2005

Simple technique for evacuation of traumatic subcutaneous haematomas under tension

Authors: George Chami, Belinda Chami, Edward Hatley and Hossam Dabis

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Aims and scope

BMC Emergency Medicine is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all urgent and emergency aspects of medicine, in both practice and basic research. In addition, the journal covers aspects of disaster medicine and medicine in special locations, such as conflict areas and military medicine, together with articles concerning healthcare services in the emergency departments.

Editor

Guangde Tu, BMC Series, Shanghai

Assistant Editor

Amelia De Salis, BMC Series, London

Section Editors

Fiona Lecky, Centre for Urgent and Emergency Care Research, University of Sheffield
Suzanne Mason, School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield
Fabio Silvio Taccone, Erasme Hospital

Meet the Editors

Fabio S. Taccone is Professor at the Department of Intensive Care of Erasme Hospital and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels (Belgium). He has a large area of interest in critical care medicine, with a particular research in antibiotic pharmacokinetics, brain injury, microcirculation during severe infections, therapeutic hypothermia as a neuro-protective strategy and ECMO.

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Epidemiology of injuries presenting to the accident centre of Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Ghana

The Emergency Medical System (EMS) response to Iraqi pilgrims’ bus crash in Iran: a case report

Routine creatine kinase testing does not provide clinical utility in the emergency department for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes

Public knowledge of people visiting Imam Reza hospital regarding stroke symptoms and risk factors

Grading and assessment of clinical predictive tools for paediatric head injury: a new evidence-based approach

Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis

A survey of knowledge, attitudes and practice of emergency contraception among university students in Cameroon

Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop

Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?

Simple technique for evacuation of traumatic subcutaneous haematomas under tension

Aims and scope

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Section Editors

Meet the Editors

BMC Series blog

An Interview with BMC Materials Section Editor, Professor Wenguo Cui

What are the most effective interventions to improve physical performance in pre-frail and frail adults? It’s surprisingly hard to tell.

EULAR 2019: highlights from the annual conference

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