Emergency Medicine Journal

*Emergency Medicine Journal*
Publication details

Former names	Archives of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Emerg. Med. J.
Discipline	Emergency medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Ellen Weber
Publisher	BMJ Group on behalf of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (United Kingdom)
Publication history	1983-present
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor (2013)	1.776
Indexing
ISSN	1472-0205 (print) 1472-0213 (web)
OCLC no.	801060983
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The Emergency Medicine Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that is jointly owned by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) and the BMJ Group.^[1] It is the official journal of the RCEM, as well as the British Association for Immediate Care and the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. It covers developments in the field of emergency and critical care medicine in both the hospital and pre-hospital environments.

The journal was established in March 1984 as the Archives of Emergency Medicine and was renamed Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine in 1994, before receiving its current title in March 2000.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 1.776.^[2]

References

↑ http://emj.bmj.com/site/about/
↑ "Emergency Medicine Journal". 2013 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2014.

External links

Emergency medicine

Emergency medicine	Emergency department Emergency medical services Emergency nursing Emergency psychiatry Golden hour Medical emergency International emergency medicine Pediatric emergency medicine Pre-hospital emergency medicine Major trauma Trauma center Triage

Equipment	Bag valve mask (BVM) Chest tube Defibrillation (AED ICD) Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG) Intraosseous infusion (IO) Intravenous therapy (IV) Tracheal intubation Laryngeal tube Combitube Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA) Oropharyngeal airway (OPA) Pocket mask

Drugs	Atropine Amiodarone Epinephrine / Adrenaline Magnesium sulfate Sodium bicarbonate Naloxone

Organisations	International Federation for Emergency Medicine American College of Emergency Physicians Australasian College for Emergency Medicine Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Royal College of Emergency Medicine European Society of Emergency Medicine Asian Society for Emergency Medicine

Courses / Life support	Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns (ACoRN) Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) Advanced trauma life support (ATLS) Basic life support (BLS) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP) First aid Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Scoring systems	NACA score Injury Severity Score

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