AfJEM is the only peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, emergency medicine journal published from Africa. It is published Quarterly (March, June, September and December) and is free to publish in and free to access | Published by Elsevier (ISSN: 2211-419X)
volume 8 issue 2
Editorial
Freely Accessible Medical Education (FAME) for Africa
Giles N. Cattermole, Appolinaire Manirafasha, Adam R. Aluisio, Gabin Mbanjumucyo
Original Articles
The accuracy of paediatric weight estimation during simulated emergencies: The effects of patient position, patient cooperation, and human errors
Mike Wells, Lara Nicole Goldstein, Alison Bentley
Paediatric weight estimation practices of advanced life support providers in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mike Wells, Laurice Barnes, Craig Vincent-Lambert
Estimating children’s weight in a Rwandan emergency centre
Appolinaire Manirafasha, Sojung Yi, Giles N. Cattermole
Qualitative inquiry into Registered General Nurses’ experiences in the emergency centre
Confidence Alorse Atakro, Janet Gross, Theresa Sarpong, Ernestina Armah, Cynthia Pomaa Akuoko
A cross-sectional survey of child abuse management knowledge among emergency medicine personnel in Cape Town, South Africa
Bruna Dessena, Paul C. Mullan
A qualitative study exploring nurses’ attitudes, confidence, and perceived barriers to implementing a traumatic brain injury nursing chart in Uganda
Leslie Wynveen, Miriam Gamble, Josephine Nabulime, Tonny Luggya, ... Hani Mowafi
Estimated injury-associated blood loss versus availability of emergency blood products at a district-level public hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Heinrich Weeber, Luke D. Hunter, Daniël J. van Hoving, Hendrick Lategan, Stevan R. Bruijns
Case Reports
Major incident simulation in Rwanda: A report of two exercises
Gabin Mbanjumucyo, Ernest Nahayo, Noah Polzin-Rosenberg, Giles N. Cattermole
Global research highlights
In partnership with the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Emergencias, Emergency Medicine Journal and Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Freely Accessible Medical Education (FAME) for Africa
Giles N. Cattermole, Appolinaire Manirafasha, Adam R. Aluisio, Gabin Mbanjumucyo
Original Articles
The accuracy of paediatric weight estimation during simulated emergencies: The effects of patient position, patient cooperation, and human errors
Mike Wells, Lara Nicole Goldstein, Alison Bentley
Paediatric weight estimation practices of advanced life support providers in Johannesburg, South Africa
Mike Wells, Laurice Barnes, Craig Vincent-Lambert
Estimating children’s weight in a Rwandan emergency centre
Appolinaire Manirafasha, Sojung Yi, Giles N. Cattermole
Qualitative inquiry into Registered General Nurses’ experiences in the emergency centre
Confidence Alorse Atakro, Janet Gross, Theresa Sarpong, Ernestina Armah, Cynthia Pomaa Akuoko
A cross-sectional survey of child abuse management knowledge among emergency medicine personnel in Cape Town, South Africa
Bruna Dessena, Paul C. Mullan
A qualitative study exploring nurses’ attitudes, confidence, and perceived barriers to implementing a traumatic brain injury nursing chart in Uganda
Leslie Wynveen, Miriam Gamble, Josephine Nabulime, Tonny Luggya, ... Hani Mowafi
Estimated injury-associated blood loss versus availability of emergency blood products at a district-level public hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Heinrich Weeber, Luke D. Hunter, Daniël J. van Hoving, Hendrick Lategan, Stevan R. Bruijns
Case Reports
Major incident simulation in Rwanda: A report of two exercises
Gabin Mbanjumucyo, Ernest Nahayo, Noah Polzin-Rosenberg, Giles N. Cattermole
Global research highlights
In partnership with the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Emergencias, Emergency Medicine Journal and Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Don't miss our 2017 paediatric special issue - now available
Guest edited by Elizabeth Molyneux and Bamenla Goka
"We must aim high. In many centres 50% of inpatient deaths occur within 24 hours of admission. By improving the care of children as they arrive at hospital we hope - no, we will - lower mortality and reduce morbidity"
Guest edited by Elizabeth Molyneux and Bamenla Goka
"We must aim high. In many centres 50% of inpatient deaths occur within 24 hours of admission. By improving the care of children as they arrive at hospital we hope - no, we will - lower mortality and reduce morbidity"
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Call for papers: Injury special issue
Scheduled for December 2018 experts with experience of working in Africa, will review some of the common injury topics that are encountered in Africa in a special issue for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine. Topics to be covered will include pre-hospital trauma care, appropriate basic trauma care, imaging in LMIC trauma, transfer to definitive care, rehabilitation after trauma and trauma registries for LMIC’s. Our aim is to be practical, locally applicable and evidence based.
Original articles, reviews and viewpoints are welcome - submit your contribution
Call for papers: Systematic reviews
Given the severe shortage in African emergency care data, AfJEM invites researchers to submit systematic reviews particularly targetting clinical emergency management of locally relevant conditions, resource availability and emergency services flow as it pertains to emergency medicine, nursing and out-of-hospital care. If you wish, do contact the editor to discuss an idea for a systematic review or submit your contribution directly
Why publish in AfJEM?
Let me be frank: AfJEM is the only emergency medicine journal dedicated to publishing research directly related to emergency care in Africa. AfJEM is ranked 12th out of 52 undifferentiated African medical journals and 37th globally out of 76 emergency medicine journals. In terms of regional impact, AfJEM is ranked 4th out of 38 emergency medicine journals that published cited African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016 (corrected for regional contribution using the 5-year h-index). In terms of volume of publications, AfJEM is ranked first; it published 1 in 6 of all African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016, with 51 other journals contributing to the rest in mostly single digits. You can read more about our regional ranking here. African emergency care is a niche field in emergency care research of which globally very few details are known. Most published African healthcare statistics regarding emergency, mortality or morbidity related topics are derived through estimates, mainly as reliable data sources do not exist. If you seek to publish in the highest impact, global journals in emergency medicine, publish to boost your chances at promotion, or simply publish for the sake of publishing, then AfJEM is probably not for you. If you however seek to publish African emergency care research, using data extracted from African sources, in a journal with a strong African impact where your African emergency care peers without access to library subscriptions can learn from your work, then AfJEM is for you.
Stevan Bruijns (editor-in-chief, 2011 to current)
Scheduled for December 2018 experts with experience of working in Africa, will review some of the common injury topics that are encountered in Africa in a special issue for the African Journal of Emergency Medicine. Topics to be covered will include pre-hospital trauma care, appropriate basic trauma care, imaging in LMIC trauma, transfer to definitive care, rehabilitation after trauma and trauma registries for LMIC’s. Our aim is to be practical, locally applicable and evidence based.
Original articles, reviews and viewpoints are welcome - submit your contribution
Call for papers: Systematic reviews
Given the severe shortage in African emergency care data, AfJEM invites researchers to submit systematic reviews particularly targetting clinical emergency management of locally relevant conditions, resource availability and emergency services flow as it pertains to emergency medicine, nursing and out-of-hospital care. If you wish, do contact the editor to discuss an idea for a systematic review or submit your contribution directly
Why publish in AfJEM?
Let me be frank: AfJEM is the only emergency medicine journal dedicated to publishing research directly related to emergency care in Africa. AfJEM is ranked 12th out of 52 undifferentiated African medical journals and 37th globally out of 76 emergency medicine journals. In terms of regional impact, AfJEM is ranked 4th out of 38 emergency medicine journals that published cited African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016 (corrected for regional contribution using the 5-year h-index). In terms of volume of publications, AfJEM is ranked first; it published 1 in 6 of all African emergency care related research between 2012 and 2016, with 51 other journals contributing to the rest in mostly single digits. You can read more about our regional ranking here. African emergency care is a niche field in emergency care research of which globally very few details are known. Most published African healthcare statistics regarding emergency, mortality or morbidity related topics are derived through estimates, mainly as reliable data sources do not exist. If you seek to publish in the highest impact, global journals in emergency medicine, publish to boost your chances at promotion, or simply publish for the sake of publishing, then AfJEM is probably not for you. If you however seek to publish African emergency care research, using data extracted from African sources, in a journal with a strong African impact where your African emergency care peers without access to library subscriptions can learn from your work, then AfJEM is for you.
Stevan Bruijns (editor-in-chief, 2011 to current)
The official journal of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania, the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, the Egyptian Society of Emergency Medicine, the Libyan Emergency Medicine Association, the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Medicine Professionals, the Sudanese Emergency Medicine Society, the Society of Emergency Medicine Practitioners of Nigeria and the Rwanda Emergency Care Association. AfJEM is an affiliate journal of the Trauma Society of South Africa and the Namibian Medical Society
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