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)
Don't miss our 2019 Injury special issue - now available
Guest edited by Tim Hardcastle, George Oosthuizen, Charlie Mock and Tarek Razek
"Trauma, the consequences and management of non-iatrogenic injury, whether intentional or unintentional, is a potentially preventable, yet everyday occurrence on the roads and in the homes of people across Africa. Almost 90% of the trauma-burden is in the developing world (LMICs), while the resources for treating trauma abound in higher income, economically developed countries."
Guest edited by Tim Hardcastle, George Oosthuizen, Charlie Mock and Tarek Razek
"Trauma, the consequences and management of non-iatrogenic injury, whether intentional or unintentional, is a potentially preventable, yet everyday occurrence on the roads and in the homes of people across Africa. Almost 90% of the trauma-burden is in the developing world (LMICs), while the resources for treating trauma abound in higher income, economically developed countries."
Submit a paper for our next special issue: African emergency care systems
Guest edited by Emilie Calvello-Hynes
Topics to consider: Leadership and governance, human resources, information systems, essential medications and technologies, systems role in infectious disease outbreaks and mass incidents, and others.
Closing date for submissions 30 September 2019
Guest edited by Emilie Calvello-Hynes
Topics to consider: Leadership and governance, human resources, information systems, essential medications and technologies, systems role in infectious disease outbreaks and mass incidents, and others.
Closing date for submissions 30 September 2019
volume 9 issue 1
Original Articles
Developing a South African Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Activation Screen (SAHAS): A Delphi study
Diane Laatz, Tyson Welzel, Willem Stassen
Procedural sedation and analgesia practices in the emergency centre
Delecia K. Wood-Thompson, Callistus O.A. Enyuma, Abdullah E. Laher
Impact of emergency medicine training implementation on mortality outcomes in Kigali, Rwanda: An interrupted time-series study
Adam R. Aluisio, Meagan A. Barry, Kyle D. Martin, Gabin Mbanjumucyo, ... Adam C. Levine
The epidemiology and severity of scorpion envenoming in South Africa as managed by the Tygerberg Poisons Information Centre over a 10 year period
Carine J. Marks, Gert J. Muller, Dmitrij Sachno, Helmuth Reuter, ... Daniel J. Van Hoving
Implementation and evaluation of an innovative leadership and teacher training program for non-physician emergency medicine practitioners in Uganda
Mariel Colella, Mark Bisanzo, Carey Farquhar, Rashidah Nambaziira, ... Gabrielle O'Malley
Modified Delphi study to determine optimal data elements for inclusion in a pilot violence and injury observatory in Cape Town, South Africa
Ardil Jabar, Shane Bjorkman, Richard Matzopoulos
Are “virtual” paediatric weight estimation studies valid?
Mike Wells, Lara Goldstein
Cola therapy for oesophageal food bolus impactions a case series
Eva P. Baerends, Tom Boeije, Anna Van Capelle, Nieke E. Mullaart-Jansen, ... Albert J. Bredenoord
Review article
Fifteen years of emergency medicine literature in Africa: A scoping review
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, Julia Dixon, Taylor W. Burkholder, Nana Sefa, ... Lee A. Wallis
Case report
Fatal Boomslang bite in the Northern Cape
Hendrik Johannes Krüger, Franz Gustav Lemke
Global research highlights
In partnership with the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Emergencias, Emergency Medicine Journal and Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine
Developing a South African Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Activation Screen (SAHAS): A Delphi study
Diane Laatz, Tyson Welzel, Willem Stassen
Procedural sedation and analgesia practices in the emergency centre
Delecia K. Wood-Thompson, Callistus O.A. Enyuma, Abdullah E. Laher
Impact of emergency medicine training implementation on mortality outcomes in Kigali, Rwanda: An interrupted time-series study
Adam R. Aluisio, Meagan A. Barry, Kyle D. Martin, Gabin Mbanjumucyo, ... Adam C. Levine
The epidemiology and severity of scorpion envenoming in South Africa as managed by the Tygerberg Poisons Information Centre over a 10 year period
Carine J. Marks, Gert J. Muller, Dmitrij Sachno, Helmuth Reuter, ... Daniel J. Van Hoving
Implementation and evaluation of an innovative leadership and teacher training program for non-physician emergency medicine practitioners in Uganda
Mariel Colella, Mark Bisanzo, Carey Farquhar, Rashidah Nambaziira, ... Gabrielle O'Malley
Modified Delphi study to determine optimal data elements for inclusion in a pilot violence and injury observatory in Cape Town, South Africa
Ardil Jabar, Shane Bjorkman, Richard Matzopoulos
Are “virtual” paediatric weight estimation studies valid?
Mike Wells, Lara Goldstein
Cola therapy for oesophageal food bolus impactions a case series
Eva P. Baerends, Tom Boeije, Anna Van Capelle, Nieke E. Mullaart-Jansen, ... Albert J. Bredenoord
Review article
Fifteen years of emergency medicine literature in Africa: A scoping review
Nee-Kofi Mould-Millman, Julia Dixon, Taylor W. Burkholder, Nana Sefa, ... Lee A. Wallis
Case report
Fatal Boomslang bite in the Northern Cape
Hendrik Johannes Krüger, Franz Gustav Lemke
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: 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)
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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