Emergency Care and Medicine, 2023

The most recent global emergency medicine 56-question survey highlighted challenges and gaps in providing emergency care [1]. A total of 63 out of 78 countries responded to the survey. Of them, 54 countries recognised emergency medicine as a speciality. Lack of resources (38%), burnout, poor working conditions, and low salaries were the most emphasised challenges in emergency medicine. Strengthening future international educational, research, and policy collaborations were key priorities to continue developing the speciality and improving emergency care [1], which was correctly characterised as a neglected health priority [2].

Not surprisingly, a bibliographic analysis of 1751 full-text research articles related to emergency medicine found significant disparities in authorship representation. It was concluded that innovative methods to increase funding and scholarship opportunities to support emergency medicine researchers in low- and middle-income countries are needed to address these disparities, particularly in low-income countries [3].

Although traditionally, from the 1960–1970s, the speciality of emergency care was associated with emergency medicine physicians and paramedics in pre-hospital and facility-based settings [1,4,5], it is not the case in the current medical world. Introduction and development of regional systems for trauma [6], acute coronary syndromes [7], and stroke care [8], preparations to perform the same with emergency general surgery [9] have expanded and broadened the global concept of emergency medicine and surgery.

I am pleased to introduce a new journal titled Emergency Care and Medicine [10] (ISSN 2813-7914). It is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access medical journal emphasising emergency care. It will cover prehospital medicine, emergency and urgent hospital medicine and nursing, emergency, urgent general (also known as acute care surgery) and specialised surgery, trauma and injury, general and specialised critical care medicine, global emergencies, tropical medicine emergencies, extreme and polar medicines, war medicine and public health, epidemiology of acute illnesses and injury, and emergency medical service systems.

It will be published quarterly online. Emergency Care and Medicine is a member of the MDPI network (https://www.mdpi.com, https://www.mdpi.com/about).

The standard categories of the manuscripts, such as editorials, reviews, overviews, original investigations, clinical guidelines, viewpoints, commentaries, and brief clinical reports with specific and unique clinically essential points will be reviewed according to the MDPI review scheme. Special interest will be given to papers which bring new insights to specific communities living in remote areas under extreme conditions.

We encourage scientists and medical practitioners to publish their experimental and clinical work results in as much detail as possible. The details of the studies must be provided according to FAIR principles (https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/, accessed on 18 August 2023) so that the results can be reproduced. To enhance the quality and transparency of health research, we recommend following reporting guidelines published at https://www.equator-network.org. The narrative of any paper using academically acceptable English is essential, as every text published will remain in the bibliographic datasets forever.