African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Article	Citations
Emergency preparedness capacity of a university hospital in Ghana: a cross-sectional study	24
Acute organophosphorus toxicity in a regional hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa: A retrospective chart review	22
Experiences and Interventions by Botswana police officers in providing emergency care in road traffic collisions in the greater Gaborone region	18
Trauma patients at the Helderberg District Hospital emergency centre, South Africa: A descriptive study	17
Emergency centre patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Some epidemiological and clinical aspects at Beni General Referral Hospital	16
Implementation of a fast triage score for patients arriving to a low resource hospital in Uganda	16
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey	14
Massive influx of victims: staff preparedness and facility readiness of Tunisian general University Hospitals.	14
Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study	14
Non-specialist emergency medicine qualifications in Africa: Lessons from the South African Diploma in Primary Emergency Care	14
Training and certification in first responder care among mountaineering practitioners in east Africa	13
Ten years of the community-based emergency first aid responder (EFAR) system in the Western Cape of South Africa: What has happened, what has changed, and what has been learned	11
Characteristics and outcomes of patients with an unscheduled return visit within 72 hours to the Paediatric Emergency Centre at a Private Tertiary Referral Hospital in Kenya	10
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review	10
Incidence and factors associated with being a victim of community assault; retrospective review of medical records in an Emergency Centre	9
Bedside colorimetric reagent dipstick in the diagnosis of meningitis in low– and middle–income countries: A prospective, international blinded comparison with laboratory analysis	9
Age-related laryngoscopic visual acuity	9
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis	9
An observational simulation-based study of the accuracy of intercostal drain placement and factors influencing placement	9
Financial medicine as a source of moral distress: An unrecognised pathway to moral injury in the South African EMS systems	8
Barriers to accessing appendectomy in the public sector health system in the Western Cape Province, South Africa	8
Disaster response readiness assessment of public hospitals in Addis Ababa City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	7
Experiences of injured patients referred to higher levels of care after initial assessment and management at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana	7
Five-year analysis of clinical presentations and predictors of stroke mortality in rural Southwestern Nigeria: A retrospective observational study	7
A cohort of pediatric injury patients from a hospital-based trauma registry in Northern Tanzania	7

Global Health research abstracts: Jul ‘24	7
Global health research abstracts: April ‘23	7
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study	7
South African palliative care provider perspectives on emergency medical services in palliative situations	7
Financial burden associated with attendance at a public hospital emergency department in Johannesburg	6
A descriptive analysis of the casemix presenting to a tertiary hospital emergency centre in East London, South Africa	6
Nurses and emergency nursing care in Botswana	6
Catheterized chicken for training on ultrasound-guided vascular access: A simple, cost-effective, and effective model	6
Chest trauma epidemiology and emergency department management in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda	6
The prevalence, management, and thirty-day outcomes of symptomatic atrial fibrillation in a Tanzanian emergency department	6
Current use and perceived barriers of emergency point-of-care ultrasound by African health care practitioners	6
Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: An observational cohort study	5
Computed tomography benefits and cost in hemodynamically stable patients with blunt abdominal trauma at an Egyptian University Hospital	5
The new injury severity score underestimates true injury severity in a resource-constrained setting	5
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students	5
Global health research abstracts: February ‘24	5
Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal	5
Emergency laparotomy for peritonitis in the elderly: A Multicentre observational study of outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia	5
Physical restraint within the prehospital Emergency Medical Care Environment: A scoping review	5
Global health research abstracts: December ‘24	5
Impact of structured basic life-support course on nurses' cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills: Experience of a paediatric department in low-resource country	5
Analysis of risk factors for wound infection after extremity fracture caused by machete cut in a resource-limited setting	4
Quality of systematic reviews in African emergency medicine: a cross-sectional methodological study	4
Access to acute stroke care: A retrospective descriptive analysis of stroke patients’ journey to a district hospital	4
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of first aid among taxi operators in a Kampala City Taxi Park, Uganda: A cross-sectional study	4
Global Health research abstracts: March ‘24	4
Determining the research priorities for emergency care within the Western Cape province of South Africa: A consensus study	4
Evaluation des connaissances théoriques des étudiants en médecine sur les gestes de premiers secours en République Démocratique du Congo	4
Clinical impact of a prehospital trauma shock bundle of care in South Africa	4
The clinical characteristics and outcomes of appendicitis in a population with a high HIV-infection prevalence	4
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients	4
A qualitative assessment of stakeholder perspectives on barriers and facilitators to emergency care delays in Northern Tanzania through the Three Delays	4
Emergency clinician output in a district hospital emergency centre: a cross-sectional analysis	4
Ketamine as adjunctive or monotherapy for post-intubation sedation in patients with trauma on mechanical ventilation: A rapid review	4
Management of acute fever in children: Consensus recommendations for community and primary healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa	4
Global Health abstracts	4
Outcomes of a Climate Change Workshop at the 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine	3
Thoracic trauma in national hospital Abuja, Nigeria: The epidemiology, injury severity and initial management options	3
A 12-month retrospective descriptive analysis of a single helicopter emergency medical service operator in four South African provinces	3
Evaluate the incidence, topography, management, and outcomes in patients with polytrauma in the Suez Canal and Sinai areas	3
The views and experiences of candidates and graduates from a South African emergency medicine doctoral programme	3
Performance of the South African triage score among HIV positive individuals presenting to an emergency department	3
Results from the implementation of the World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course in Lagos, Nigeria	3
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi	3
Essential human and material resources for emergency care in the district hospitals of Burundi	3
Systemic emergency department performance in a low resource tertiary health facility in central Kenya: Micro level emergency care system evaluation	3
A comparison of the effectiveness of QCPR and conventional CPR training in final-year medical students at a South African university	3
Developing an Emergency Medicine assessment tool for medical interns within the South African context – A Modified Delphi Study	3
A descriptive study of trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services to a level one trauma centre	3

Paediatric emergency care at an academic referral hospital in Mozambique	3
Predicting mortality in trauma patients - A retrospective comparison of the performance of six scoring systems applied to polytrauma patients from the emergency centre of a South African central hospi	3
Global Health research abstracts: September ‘24	3
Global health research abstracts: January ‘24	3
Prehospital care for traumatic spinal cord injury by first responders in 8 sub-Saharan African countries and 6 other low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review	3
Comparison of paediatric weight estimation methods at a tertiary hospital in Ghana	3
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of emergency medical services in Nairobi, Kenya	3
Epidemiological profile and performance of triage decision-making process of COVID-19 suspected cases in southern Tunisia	2
Framework first: Key insights on developing emergency medical care policy in low- and middle-income countries	2
Can plethysmographic capillary refill time predict lactate during sepsis? An observational study from Morocco	2
Intubation during spinal motion restriction using the LuboTM cervical collar - a manikin simulation study	2
Development of a checklist for auditing completion of patient report forms: A Delphi study	2
Antivenom supply and demand: An analysis of antivenom availability and utilization in South Africa	2
Comparative study of National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) chest algorithm and extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (E-FAST) in the early detection of blunt ches	2
The role of emergency medicine interest groups in the development of emergency medicine: A case of Mbarara University of Science and Technology—Emergency Medicine Interest Group (MUST-EMIG) in Uganda	2
Factors affecting initiation of palliative care in a Ugandan Emergency Department	2
Streamlining referral decisions for childhood poisoning: a cross-sectional study from a tertiary children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa	2
Pattern of trauma in elderly patients seen at the trauma centre of national hospital Abuja, Nigeria	2
The value of shock index, modified shock index and age shock index to predict mortality and hospitalisation in a district level emergency centre	2
Adapted full-face snorkel masks as an alternative for COVID-19 personal protection during aerosol generating procedures in South Africa: A multi-centre, non-blinded in-situ simulation study	2
Abstracts from African Conference of Emergency Care 2024. Gaborone, Botswana November 2024	2
The activities and impacts of a community-based volunteer ambulance service in Cape Town, South Africa	2
After-hour trauma-radiograph interpretation in the emergency centre of a District Hospital	2
Physicians' knowledge and practice concerning diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis: The situation in Egypt	2
Delay in hospital discharge of trauma patients in a University Hospital in Egypt: A prospective observational study	2
Factors influencing willingness to intervene as bystanders among adult residents living in crash-prone areas in the Ashanti region of Ghana	2
Global Health research abstracts: September ‘23	2
Knowledge and practices of epistaxis in Eastern Tanzania: A cross-sectional study of an emergency in otorhinolaryngology	2
Injury patterns in patients with severe traumatic brain injuries from motor crashes admitted to Mulago hospital accidents & emergency unit	2
A consensus-based tool for capability benchmarking of emergency medical services in South Africa	2
Emergency care drugs' chemical stability after eight weeks’ deployment in the prehospital setting	2
Strengthening emergency care provision in a non-emergency physician run emergency department – Experience from the Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
Understanding the factors that influence CT utilization for mild traumatic brain injury in a low resource setting - a qualitative study using the Theoretical Domains Framework	2
The transition of patient care: Exploring the outcomes of prehospital to hospital patient handover practices and healthcare provider education	2
Utilisation of peripheral vasopressor medications and extravasation events among critically ill patients in Rwanda: A prospective cohort study	2
Utilisation of WhatsApp for Emergency Medical Services in Garissa, Kenya	2
Improving the time to pain relief in the emergency department through triage nurse-initiated analgesia - a quasi-experimental study from Ethiopia	2
Clinical profile and outcomes of trauma patients visiting the emergency department of a trauma center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	2
The knowledge level of nurses managing critically-ill and injured patients in Ashanti Region of Ghana	2
Global health research abstracts: March ‘23	2
Temporal changes in trauma according to alcohol sale restrictions during the South African national COVID-19 lockdown	1
Impact of implementation of sequential trauma education programs (STEPs) course on missed injuries in emergency polytrauma patients, Ismailia, Egypt	1
An evaluation of basic life support training among medical students in Southwest Nigeria: A web-based study	1
Development and delivery of a higher diploma in emergency medicine and critical care for clinical officers in Kenya	1
Leveraging tele-mentoring and remote learning to strengthen the emergency care capacity of health workers in Uganda	1
Patients requiring palliative care attending a regional hospital emergency centre in South Africa: A descriptive study	1
Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience	1
Palliative care needs and barriers in an urban Ugandan Emergency Department: A mixed-methods survey of emergency healthcare workers and patients	1
Global Health research abstracts: June ‘24	1
The value of electrocardiography in predicting inpatient mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism: A cross sectional analysis	1
A retrospective review of post-intubation sedation and analgesia practices in a South African private ambulance service	1
The ethical considerations for emergency care research in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of the published literature	1
Prevalence and presentation of neonatal sepsis at a paediatric emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa	1
Variables required for the audit of quality completion of patient report forms by EMS—A scoping review	1
Diagnostic Performance of Point of Care Ultrasound Compared to Chest X-Ray in Patients with Hypoxia at a Teaching Hospital Emergency Department in Uganda	1
Global Health research abstracts: November ‘22	1
Effects of the Lubo cervical collar on airway patency in awake adults – A magnetic resonance imaging study	1
Stroke in Djibouti	1
Trauma provision in South-West Nigeria: Epidemiology, challenges and priorities	1
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, recommendations and challenges at hand	1
Financial medicine: A multi-dimensional concept moving towards contextually specific working definitions for use in the South African prehospital setting	1
Injury characteristics and their association with clinical complications among emergency care patients in Tanzania	1
Global health research abstracts: May ‘24	1
Global Health research abstracts: December ‘22	1
Demographics and clinical characteristics of hospitalised patients under investigation for COVID-19 with an initial negative SARS-CoV-2 PCR test result	1
Epidemiology and outcomes of geriatric trauma patients consulting at the center hospitalier universitaire de Kigali emergency department	1
Factors which affect the application and implementation of a spinal motion restriction protocol by prehospital providers in a low resource setting: A scoping review	1
Occupational blood and body fluid exposure among emergency medical service providers in the eThekwini metropole of South Africa	1
Characteristics of paediatric injuries as predictors of 24-hour disposition from the Emergency Department of a teaching hospital in Southwestern Uganda	1
Triage implementation audit at the adult emergency department of Debre Tabor Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia	1
Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of smartphone captured radiologic images communicated via WhatsApp®	1
Empowering emergency nursing in Africa through research	1
An investigation into the use of Full-body Low Dose X-rays Imaging system in South Africa: Radiographer's perspective	1
From vocational to graduation: A mixed methods study of support needs for vocational learners pursuing post-graduate education in South Africa	1
Challenges and opportunities to improve efficiency and quality of prehospital emergency care using an mHealth platform: Qualitative study in Rwanda	1
Exploring trauma surgeons' views on trauma care in Nigeria: A qualitative study	1
Drug and alcohol use in Tanzanian road traffic collision drivers	1
The knowledge and skills of emergency department registered nursing staff at an academic hospital in South Africa, on endotracheal tube cuff manometry, before and after a training session	1
Assessment and reassessment of injured patients at non-tertiary hospitals in Ghana: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial	1
Global Health abstracts	1

Assault-injured youth in the emergency centres of Khayelitsha, South Africa: A prospective study of recidivism and mortality	1
Knowledge retention and usefulness of simulation exercises for disaster medicine - what do specialty trainees know and think?	1
Workplace violence in three public sector emergency departments, Gauteng, South Africa: A cross-sectional survey	1
Global health research abstracts: July ‘23	1
Description and analysis of the emergency obstetric interfacility ambulance transfers (IFTs) to Kawempe National Referral Hospital in Uganda	1
Emergency care capacity in Sierra Leone: A multicentre analysis	1