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Prehospital management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Guest edited by Robert Larribau and Song Yi Park.
Geriatric emergency medicine
Guest edited by Jui-Yuan Chung, Simon Conroy, and James van Oppen.
Trauma-informed care
Guest edited by Rayan Alharbi and Hanni Stoklosa.
Editors' picks
Articles
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Workplace violence in the ambulance service from the offender’s perspective: a qualitative study using trial transcripts
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Characterization of emergency department visits in pediatric patients within first year of liver transplantation: ten years experience in tertiary care center
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Knowledge about crime scenes and evidence management among emergency medical team professionals
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Factors associated with delayed order-to-administration time in the emergency department: a retrospective analysis
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A pilot study of 17 wrist-cutting suicide injuries in single institution: perspectives from a hand surgeon
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ABCDE cognitive aid tool in patient assessment – development and validation in a multicenter pilot simulation study
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Emergency department triage: an ethical analysis
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Unified treatment algorithm for the management of crotaline snakebite in the United States: results of an evidence-informed consensus workshop
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Is the APLS formula used to calculate weight-for-age applicable to a Trinidadian population?
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.
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Annual Journal Metrics
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Citation Impact 2023
Journal Impact Factor: 2.3
5-year Journal Impact Factor: 2.5
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP): 0.936
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.745
Speed 2024
Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 5
Submission to acceptance (median days): 131
Usage 2024
Downloads: 1,290,540
Altmetric mentions: 641
Peer-review Terminology
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The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:
Identity transparency: Single anonymized
Reviewer interacts with: Editor
Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication