About Trauma Care

Aims

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.

Scope

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

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Trauma Care will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

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