Aims and Scope Update of Trauma Care

Trauma Care (ISSN: 2673-866X) published its initial Aims and Scope in July 2020; since then, it has received a large variety of submissions from several disciplines relevant to physical and physiological trauma. After careful consideration of the editorial board’s expertise, the potential overlaps with other journals, and the time taken in the editorial process for articles from different fields, we refocused our journal’s scope. Trauma Care will continue to consider any aspects regarding the prevention, treatment, education, and research of physical injuries. Also, in line with the comprehensive science of traumatology, submissions related to the psychological components of mechanical trauma will be considered. This new strategic focus requires tightening of our editorial process and strengthening of the editorial board’s contributions to be consistent with the new scope. Until further notice, new submissions about isolated psychological trauma, which is not a response to mechanical injuries, will not be considered for peer review.

More details are presented in

Table 1. Changes in the Aims and Scope of the Trauma Care journal.

Aims (New Version):	Aims and Scope (Old Version):
Trauma Care (ISSN: 2673-866X) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes new, significant research on all aspects of traumatic injury and its prevention, management, research, and education. Trauma Care also covers psychological aspects associated with physical injuries. This journal does not publish articles on isolated psychological trauma without physical injuries.	Trauma Care (ISSN: 2673-866X) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles, critical reviews, short communications, etc., on all aspects of the interdisciplinary area of traumatic injury and psychological trauma research. Trauma Care focuses on how humans deal with physical injury and psychological trauma in a scientific and humanistic way. Research fields of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: Physical Trauma: Injury control Prevention of injury Care of injury Rehabilitation of injury Physical impairment Physical disability Sport injury Practice of trauma surgery Acute care surgery Emergency surgery Orthopaedic trauma Neurotrauma Polytrauma Traumatic shock Emotional and Psychological Trauma: Bullying Community violence Disasters Early childhood trauma Intimate partner violence Medical trauma Physical abuse Refugee trauma Sexual abuse Terrorism and violence Traumatic grief Complex trauma
Scope (New Version):
Research fields of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: Injury control Prevention of injury Paediatric trauma Geriatric trauma Basic science relevant to trauma care Postinjury inflammatory and immune response Systemic response to injury Disaster response to injuries Military trauma care Trauma nursing Penetrating and ballistic injuries Allied health aspects of trauma care Trauma care in resource-limited environments Humanitarian trauma care Physical impairment from injury Sport injury Practice of trauma surgery Orthopaedic trauma Spine and spinal cord injuries Neurotrauma Vascular trauma Visceral trauma Thoracic trauma Chest wall injuries Pelvic and acetabular injuries Open fractures Soft tissue injuries Burns Postinjury critical care Prehospital care of trauma patients Polytrauma Traumatic shock and resuscitation Postinjury organ failure Emotional and psychological consequences of mechanical injuries Emotional and psychological effects on professionals treating injured patients

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