A Needle in a Haystack: Looking for Gaps in Treatment and Education in Emergency Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

Emergency medicine is a very specific specialization created to meet the needs of patients of all ages, in life-threatening emergencies of any etiology. This makes it stand out from other fields of medicine in terms of the clinical diversity of patients. Emergency care, in many cases, is also characterized by limited time to implement critical life-saving interventions. Noteworthy is the fact that rescue activities have a multi-stage nature, starting with first aid provided by bystanders and ending with multi-specialized care in emergency departments. This, of course, requires effective and safe solutions in the field of logistics, transport and organizational solutions.

This specificity of emergency medicine makes conducting clinical research in this area a great challenge. Despite the continuous development of science, technological progress and the possibilities of research tools, many recommendations and standards of conduct are still based on weak evidence or only the agreed opinion of experts. The thematic breadth of emergency medicine also means that many important research issues are not addressed or are poorly understood, which results in gaps in knowledge and practice.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to encourage researchers to think “outside the box” when planning emergency care research and to fill these gaps. At the same time, this Special Issue aims at drawing attention to the need for high-quality research based on strong and purposeful methodology. The results of this research should have the potential to be translated into patient benefit.

In this Special Issue, high quality and novel original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Basic and advanced life support;
• Cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
• Increasing the effectiveness of emergency medical training;
• Pre-hospital care;
• Drug therapies at the pre-hospital stage;
• Pediatric life-threatening emergencies;
• Trauma in traffic accidents;
• Trauma hemorrhage control;
• Emergency medicine in war-torn areas;
• Acute internal medicine;
• Acute cardiac and neurological emergencies;
• Special patients and special circumstances in emergency medicine;
• Logistics and transport in rescue operations;
• Innovations in emergency care;
• Human factor and psychology in life-threatening conditions.

Prof. Dr. Klaudiusz Nadolny
Dr. Filip Krzysztof Jaśkiewicz
Guest Editors

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• emergency medical services
• pre-hospital care
• pediatric emergencies
• acute medicine
• resuscitation
• innovations
• trauma
• war injuries
• hemorrhage control
• medical simulation
• emergency training