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 for LMIC authors and free to access for all | Published by Elsevier (ISSN: 2211-419X)
AfJEM adopts a gold (paid) open access model
From 2021 the AfJEM will require an article processing fee from some of our authors when accepting an article for publication. This is necessary to fund the journal's growing outputs and therefore to maintain its ongoing operation.
An article processing fee of $1200 (less than half the average article processing fee across emergency medicine journals) will be required where the corresponding author of an article accepted for publication is from a high-income country.
An article processing fee will not be required for articles where the corresponding author is from a low- or a middle-income country. In other words, authors from low- or middle-income countries will continue to benefit from free publishing, whilst all articles will remain open access.
From 2021 the AfJEM will require an article processing fee from some of our authors when accepting an article for publication. This is necessary to fund the journal's growing outputs and therefore to maintain its ongoing operation.
An article processing fee of $1200 (less than half the average article processing fee across emergency medicine journals) will be required where the corresponding author of an article accepted for publication is from a high-income country.
An article processing fee will not be required for articles where the corresponding author is from a low- or a middle-income country. In other words, authors from low- or middle-income countries will continue to benefit from free publishing, whilst all articles will remain open access.
Volume 10 Issue 4
Original Articles
Core competencies required by toxicology graduates in order to function effectively in a Poisons Information Centre: A Delphi study
C.J. Marks, A.J.N. Louw, I. Couper
Impact of nursing education and a monitoring tool on outcomes in traumatic brain injury
Miriam Gamble, Tonny Stone Luggya, Jacqueline Mabweijano, Josephine Nabulime, Hani Mowafi
Clinical mortality risk factors of variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a Malagasy surgical intensive care unit
Aurélia Rakotondrainibe, Nadia M.P. Rahanitriniaina, Harifetra M.R. Randriamizao, Jasper G. Raelison, ... François Sztark
Impact of lockdown measures implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic on the burden of trauma presentations to a regional emergency department in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
David Morris, Megan Rogers, Nicole Kissmer, Anzanne Du Preez, Nicholas Dufourq
A cross sectional study of the availability of paediatric emergency equipment in South African emergency units
Lauren Lai King, Baljit Cheema, D.J. van Hoving
An analysis of the descriptors of acute myocardial infarction used by South Africans when calling for an ambulance from a private emergency call centre
Chloe Buma, Colleen Saunders, Jennifer Watermeyer, Willem Stassen
Standardised management of atraumatic epistaxis for improved outcomes in an emergency department with off-site ear, nose and throat cover - A quality improvement project
Eziefa Obuseh, Emily O'Conor
The utility of serial chest X-rays for detection of delayed pneumothorax, haemothorax or haemopneumothorax following penetrating thoracic injury
Carolyn Lewis, David Lee Skinner
Impact of community-based first responder development for the management of drowning casualties in rural areas of Bangladesh
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Md Shafkat Hossain, Cinderella Akbar Mayaboti, AKM Fazlur Rahman, ... Aminur Rahman
Comparative mortality for children at one hospital in Kenya staffed with pediatric emergency medicine specialists
Alison Gardner, Katherine Fraile, Arianna Shirk
Frailty screening of Tunisian older adults: feasibility and usefulness in the Emergency Department
Olfa Chakroun-Walha, Adel Walha, Haifa Bradai, Abdennour Nasri, ... Noureddine Rekik
Developing sustainable prehospital trauma education in Rwanda
Ashley Rosenberg, Ignace Kabagema, Basil Asay, Jean Marie Uwitonze, ... Sudha Jayaraman
A descriptive study of the use of cardiac point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in public emergency centres in Cape Town
Ushira Ganas, Jacques J. Malan, Stevan R. Bruijns
Barriers to the implementation of prehospital thrombolysis in the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in South Africa: An exploratory inquiry
Andrew Lynch, Simpiwe Sobuwa, Nicholas Castle
Review
Measuring patient experience in the emergency department: A scoping review
Yemisi Okikiade Oyegbile, Petra Brysiewicz
Palliation, end-of-life care and burns; practical issues, spiritual care and care of the family – A narrative review II
Daan den Hollander, Rene Albertyn, Julia Ambler
Case reports
Please do not put a chest drain in my chest! Vanishing lung syndrome
Avinash Aujayeb
The air up there - Chilaiditi's syndrome: A case report and review of the literature
Hassan Ali Tariq, Tharuneshan Pillay
Left ventricular mass in a patient with severe heart failure
Felix Wangmang, Ryan Joseph
Ricin poisoning after oral ingestion of castor beans: A case report and literature review
Mouna Benamor, Emna Gharbi, Sirine Bouzid, Olfa Chakroun-Walha, Noureddine Rekik
CT-guided retrieval of a fractured intravenous cannula in a toddler: A case report
Peter Olalekan Adeosun, Abdulateef Temitope Abdulazeez, Uchenna Ifeoma Okeke, Olamide Emmanuel Ehinmosan, Eziamaka Gloria Eze
Successful use of an improvised bubble CPAP device for severe respiratory distress caused by pulmonary tuberculosis
Tabitha Nadishani Meyer, Gareth Dudley Meyer, Hans Jurgen Hendriks
Rapid reversal of vasoplegia with methylene blue in calcium channel blocker poisoning
Biplab K. Saha, Alyssa Bonnier, Woon Chong
It might be a tumor: a unique presentation of a chronic rotator cuff tear
John Kiel, Eamon Olwell
Global research highlights
In partnership with the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine Emergencias and the Emergency Medicine Journal
Core competencies required by toxicology graduates in order to function effectively in a Poisons Information Centre: A Delphi study
C.J. Marks, A.J.N. Louw, I. Couper
Impact of nursing education and a monitoring tool on outcomes in traumatic brain injury
Miriam Gamble, Tonny Stone Luggya, Jacqueline Mabweijano, Josephine Nabulime, Hani Mowafi
Clinical mortality risk factors of variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a Malagasy surgical intensive care unit
Aurélia Rakotondrainibe, Nadia M.P. Rahanitriniaina, Harifetra M.R. Randriamizao, Jasper G. Raelison, ... François Sztark
Impact of lockdown measures implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic on the burden of trauma presentations to a regional emergency department in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa
David Morris, Megan Rogers, Nicole Kissmer, Anzanne Du Preez, Nicholas Dufourq
A cross sectional study of the availability of paediatric emergency equipment in South African emergency units
Lauren Lai King, Baljit Cheema, D.J. van Hoving
An analysis of the descriptors of acute myocardial infarction used by South Africans when calling for an ambulance from a private emergency call centre
Chloe Buma, Colleen Saunders, Jennifer Watermeyer, Willem Stassen
Standardised management of atraumatic epistaxis for improved outcomes in an emergency department with off-site ear, nose and throat cover - A quality improvement project
Eziefa Obuseh, Emily O'Conor
The utility of serial chest X-rays for detection of delayed pneumothorax, haemothorax or haemopneumothorax following penetrating thoracic injury
Carolyn Lewis, David Lee Skinner
Impact of community-based first responder development for the management of drowning casualties in rural areas of Bangladesh
Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, Md Shafkat Hossain, Cinderella Akbar Mayaboti, AKM Fazlur Rahman, ... Aminur Rahman
Comparative mortality for children at one hospital in Kenya staffed with pediatric emergency medicine specialists
Alison Gardner, Katherine Fraile, Arianna Shirk
Frailty screening of Tunisian older adults: feasibility and usefulness in the Emergency Department
Olfa Chakroun-Walha, Adel Walha, Haifa Bradai, Abdennour Nasri, ... Noureddine Rekik
Developing sustainable prehospital trauma education in Rwanda
Ashley Rosenberg, Ignace Kabagema, Basil Asay, Jean Marie Uwitonze, ... Sudha Jayaraman
A descriptive study of the use of cardiac point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in public emergency centres in Cape Town
Ushira Ganas, Jacques J. Malan, Stevan R. Bruijns
Barriers to the implementation of prehospital thrombolysis in the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in South Africa: An exploratory inquiry
Andrew Lynch, Simpiwe Sobuwa, Nicholas Castle
Review
Measuring patient experience in the emergency department: A scoping review
Yemisi Okikiade Oyegbile, Petra Brysiewicz
Palliation, end-of-life care and burns; practical issues, spiritual care and care of the family – A narrative review II
Daan den Hollander, Rene Albertyn, Julia Ambler
Case reports
Please do not put a chest drain in my chest! Vanishing lung syndrome
Avinash Aujayeb
The air up there - Chilaiditi's syndrome: A case report and review of the literature
Hassan Ali Tariq, Tharuneshan Pillay
Left ventricular mass in a patient with severe heart failure
Felix Wangmang, Ryan Joseph
Ricin poisoning after oral ingestion of castor beans: A case report and literature review
Mouna Benamor, Emna Gharbi, Sirine Bouzid, Olfa Chakroun-Walha, Noureddine Rekik
CT-guided retrieval of a fractured intravenous cannula in a toddler: A case report
Peter Olalekan Adeosun, Abdulateef Temitope Abdulazeez, Uchenna Ifeoma Okeke, Olamide Emmanuel Ehinmosan, Eziamaka Gloria Eze
Successful use of an improvised bubble CPAP device for severe respiratory distress caused by pulmonary tuberculosis
Tabitha Nadishani Meyer, Gareth Dudley Meyer, Hans Jurgen Hendriks
Rapid reversal of vasoplegia with methylene blue in calcium channel blocker poisoning
Biplab K. Saha, Alyssa Bonnier, Woon Chong
It might be a tumor: a unique presentation of a chronic rotator cuff tear
John Kiel, Eamon Olwell
Global research highlights
In partnership with the Annals of Emergency Medicine, Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine Emergencias and the Emergency Medicine Journal
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 ![]() Our 2017 paediatric special issue is now available
Guest edited by Elizabeth Molyneux and Bamenla Goka. ![]() Our 2019 Injury special issue is now available
Guest edited by Tim Hardcastle, George Oosthuizen, Charlie Mock and Tarek Razek. |

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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