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Trauma Care for the 21st Century

Guest Editor:
Pierre Bouzat: Grenoble Alpes University, France

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 December 2023


Critical Care is presenting a new Collection of articles that will summarize the current state of the art of trauma resuscitation and imagine the evolution and challenges for the 21st century: dealing with shock, trauma systems, demographic change, new approaches to trauma research, trauma care in low- and middle-income countries.

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About the collection

Major trauma remains the “neglected disease” despite its global socioeconomic impact as the leading cause of death and disability. Trauma affects all age and socioeconomic groups, and presents in many different forms from isolated traumatic brain injury to hemorrhagic shock and from multiple trauma to low-impact injury in the elderly. Severe injury is often literally life changing within the blink of an eye. The trauma community has learned to reduce the impact of major trauma considerably through rigorous evidence-based research, implementation of trauma systems and pragmatism. Despite these improvements the challenges remain considerable, in particular in low- and middle-income countries.

For this reason, this Collection of articles will summarize the current state of the art of trauma resuscitation and imagine the evolution and challenges for the 21st century: dealing with shock, trauma systems, demographic change, new approaches to trauma research, trauma care in low- and middle-income countries… Stay tuned for an inspiring collection of articles written by international opinion leaders.

  2. While numerous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been conducted in the field of trauma, a substantial portion of them are yielding negative results. One potential contributing factor to this trend could...

    Authors: Thomas Jeanmougin, Elaine Cole, Baptiste Duceau, Mathieu Raux and Arthur James
    Citation: Critical Care 2023 27:363
    Content type: Research Published on:

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Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have read our submission guidelines. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Trauma Care for the 21st Century" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.