African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Article	Citations
Impact of lockdown measures implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic on the burden of trauma presentations to a regional emergency department in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa	62
The effect of clinical simulation assessment on stress and anxiety measures in emergency care students	17
Medical student satisfaction and confidence in simulation-based learning in Rwanda – Pre and post-simulation survey research	14
Survival status and predictors of mortality among traumatic brain injury patients in an Ethiopian hospital: A retrospective cohort study	13
Building focused cardiac ultrasound capacity in a lower middle-income country: A single centre study to assess training impact	13
Interpretation of emergency CT scans in polytrauma: trauma surgeon vs radiologist	13
Patterns of road traffic accident, nature of related injuries, and post-crash outcome determinants in western Ethiopia - a hospital based study	13
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	13
WITHDRAWN: COVID-19 Severity Scoring Tool for low resourced settings	11
Impact of traffic, poverty and facility ownership on travel time to emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya	11
Results from the implementation of the World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course in Lagos, Nigeria	11
Trauma burden, patient demographics and care-process in major hospitals in Tanzania: A needs assessment for improving healthcare resource management	10
Evaluation of a modified South African Triage Score as a predictor of patient disposition at a tertiary hospital in Rwanda	10
Facilitating the development of emergency nursing in Africa: Operational challenges and successes	9
Two simple replacements for the Triage Early Warning Score to facilitate the South African Triage Scale in low resource settings	9
Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia	9
Self-assessed competencies of nurses at an emergency department in Ghana	9
Management of acute fever in children: Consensus recommendations for community and primary healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa	9
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study	9
Temporal changes in trauma according to alcohol sale restrictions during the South African national COVID-19 lockdown	9
Design and construction of a simplified, gas-driven, pressure-controlled emergency ventilator	8
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi	8
Patterns of injury at an Ethiopian referral hospital: Using an institutional trauma registry to inform injury prevention and systems strengthening	8
Palliation, end-of-life care and burns; concepts, decision-making and communication – A narrative review	8
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, recommendations and challenges at hand	8

Telephonic description of sepsis among callers to an emergency dispatch centre in South Africa	7
Informing future policy for trauma prevention: The effect of the COVID-19 ‘National state of disaster lockdown’ on the trauma burden of a tertiary trauma centre in the Western Cape of South Africa	7
The status and future of emergency care in the Republic of Kenya	7
Drug dosing errors in simulated paediatric emergencies – Comprehensive dosing guides outperform length-based tapes with precalculated drug doses	7
Ricin poisoning after oral ingestion of castor beans: A case report and literature review	6
Novel educational adjuncts for the World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course: A prospective cohort study	6
Application of the World Health Organization's Basic Emergency Care course in Zambia	6
A baseline review of the ability of hospitals in Kenya to provide emergency and critical care services for COVID-19 patients	6
A comparative study on the diagnostic validity of three scoring systems in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in emergency centres	6
Emergency department management of traumatic brain injuries: A resource tiered review	6
African Federation for Emergency Medicine resources for managing COVID-19 in low resourced settings	6
Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of smartphone captured radiologic images communicated via WhatsApp®	6
Trauma training in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of ATLS alternatives	6
Injured and broke: The impacts of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on service delivery and catastrophic health expenditure among seriously injured children	6
Epidemiology of prehospital trauma deaths in Malawi: A retrospective cohort study	5
The Urgent Need for Postgraduate Medical Training in Emergency Medicine in Nigeria	5
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients	5
Rapid reversal of vasoplegia with methylene blue in calcium channel blocker poisoning	5
Association between multivitamin supplementation and mortality among patients with Ebola virus disease: An international multisite cohort study	5
Burden and spectrum of paediatric respiratory diseases at a referral hospital in North-Central Nigeria - A five year review	5
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review	5
Awareness and attitude of final year students towards the learning and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria	5
Clinical teams' experiences of crowding in public emergency centres in Cape Town, South Africa	5
Guidance we can trust? The status and quality of prehospital clinical guidance in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	5
Injury burdens and care delivery in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kigali, Rwanda: A prospective interrupted cross-sectional study	5
Reasons for patients with non-urgent conditions attending the emergency department in Kenya: A qualitative study	5
Barriers to the implementation of prehospital thrombolysis in the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in South Africa: An exploratory inquiry	4
Stroke knowledge among emergency centre visitors: A cross-sectional multicenter survey	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
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	4
Factors affecting utilization of traditional bonesetters in the Northern Region of Ghana	4
Health-related reasons patients transfer from a clinic or health post to the Emergency Department in a District Hospital in Botswana	4
An analysis of US Africa command area of operations military medical transportations, 2008–2018	4
Colchicine overdose: A South African experience, a case report	4
Effect of family presence on pain and anxiety levels among patients during invasive nursing procedures in an emergency department at a public hospital in Western Iran	4
Firearm injuries among children due to the Kivu conflict from 2017 to 2020: A hospital-based retrospective descriptive cohort study	4
A comparison of the effectiveness of QCPR and conventional CPR training in final-year medical students at a South African university	4
Factors which affect the application and implementation of a spinal motion restriction protocol by prehospital providers in a low resource setting: A scoping review	4
An assessment of Nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice of emergency care related to road traffic accident victims at three selected hospitals in Rwanda	4
After-hour trauma-radiograph interpretation in the emergency centre of a District Hospital	4
The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown and alcohol restriction on trauma-related emergency department cases in a South African regional hospital	4
The effect of personal protective equipment on cardiac compression quality	4
Measuring patient experience in the emergency department: A scoping review	4
Observed benefits of a major trauma centre in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria	4
The accuracy of nurse-led triage of adult patients in the emergency centre of urban private hospitals	4
The characteristics and outcomes of trauma admissions to an adult general surgery ward in a tertiary teaching hospital	4
A retrospective comparison of the burden of organophosphate poisoning to an Intensive Care Unit in Soweto over two separate periods	4
Impact of structured basic life-support course on nurses' cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills: Experience of a paediatric department in low-resource country	4
An electronic survey of preferred podcast format and content requirements among trainee emergency medicine specialists in four Southern African universities	4
Areas of delay related to prolonged length of stay in an emergency department of an academic hospital in South Africa	4

An analysis of the descriptors of acute myocardial infarction used by South Africans when calling for an ambulance from a private emergency call centre	4
The utility of serial chest X-rays for detection of delayed pneumothorax, haemothorax or haemopneumothorax following penetrating thoracic injury	3
Ethylene glycol poisoning: A diagnostic challenge in a patient with persistent seizures and a severe metabolic acidosis	3
Pattern of trauma in elderly patients seen at the trauma centre of national hospital Abuja, Nigeria	3
A descriptive study of the use of cardiac point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in public emergency centres in Cape Town	3
Family presence during patient acute deterioration: A survey of nurses' attitudes and reflection on COVID-19 in an African setting	3
A prospective, internal validation of an emergency patient triage tool for use in a low resource setting	3
Non-operative management of blunt abdominal solid organ trauma in adult patients	3
Streamlining referral decisions for childhood poisoning: a cross-sectional study from a tertiary children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa	3
Combat injuries sustained by troops on counter terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in North east Nigeria: Implications for intervention	3
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students	3
Developing sustainable prehospital trauma education in Rwanda	3
Feasibility of project ECHO telementoring to build capacity among non-specialist emergency care providers	3
Evaluation of the clinical outcome of captopril use for hypertensive urgency in Khartoum State's emergency centres	3
Training, knowledge, experience and perceptions regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation of doctors at an academic hospital in central South Africa	3
Delayed presentation of paracetamol overdose	3
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis	3
Access to acute stroke care: A retrospective descriptive analysis of stroke patients’ journey to a district hospital	3
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	3
Reaching further: Lessons from the implementation of the WHO Basic Emergency Care Course Companion App in Tanzania	3
Prevalence and outcome of sepsis and septic shock in intensive care units in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A prospective observational study	3
A qualitative study of COVID-19 related reasons for delayed presentation of patients with chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic	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
Core competencies required by toxicology graduates in order to function effectively in a Poisons Information Centre: A Delphi study	3
Providing end-of-life care in the emergency department: Early experience from Médecins Sans Frontières during the Covid-19 pandemic	3
Prevalence and risk factors of acute kidney injury in polytrauma patients at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute, Tanzania	3
Factors influencing willingness to intervene as bystanders among adult residents living in crash-prone areas in the Ashanti region of Ghana	3
Prevalence and presentation of neonatal sepsis at a paediatric emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
Severe traumatic brain injuries secondary to motor vehicle crashes in two Namibian regions: A retrospective review	2
The burden of HIV and tuberculosis on the resuscitation area of an urban district-level hospital in Cape Town	2
Five-year analysis of clinical presentations and predictors of stroke mortality in rural Southwestern Nigeria: A retrospective observational study	2
The burden of diabetic emergencies on the resuscitation area of a district-level public hospital in Cape Town	2
Major interpersonal violence cases seen in a Pretoria academic hospital over a one-year period, with emphasis on community assault cases	2
Impact of implementation of sequential trauma education programs (STEPs) course on missed injuries in emergency polytrauma patients, Ismailia, Egypt	2
Injury patterns of patients presenting to a non-governmental hospital in Western Uganda	2
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey	2
Injury characteristics and their association with clinical complications among emergency care patients in Tanzania	2
Transfusion, mortality and hemoglobin level: Associations among emergency department patients in Kigali, Rwanda	2
A descriptive analysis of the casemix presenting to a tertiary hospital emergency centre in East London, South Africa	2
CT-guided retrieval of a fractured intravenous cannula in a toddler: A case report	2
Triage guideline for immunocompromised children with fever in an emergency centre in Ethiopia	2
Monitoring of characteristics of the patients visiting an emergency center in Cameroon through the development of hospital patient database	2
Infants 21–90 days presenting with a possible serious bacterial infection – are evaluation algorithms from high income countries applicable in the South African public health sector?	2
Comparison of paediatric weight estimation methods at a tertiary hospital in Ghana	2
Diagnostic Performance of Point of Care Ultrasound Compared to Chest X-Ray in Patients with Hypoxia at a Teaching Hospital Emergency Department in Uganda	2
Predictors of mortality in emergency centre patients with acute pesticide poisoning in Uganda	2
Impact of community-based first responder development for the management of drowning casualties in rural areas of Bangladesh	2
In-home interpersonal violence: Sex based prevalence and outcomes	2
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	2
Adult medical emergency unit presentations due to adverse drug reactions in a setting of high HIV prevalence	2
Outcomes of a Climate Change Workshop at the 2020 African Conference on Emergency Medicine	2
Current use and perceived barriers of emergency point-of-care ultrasound by African health care practitioners	2
Please do not put a chest drain in my chest! Vanishing lung syndrome	2
Impact of nursing education and a monitoring tool on outcomes in traumatic brain injury	2
Bull horn injury causing traumatic tooth intrusion – ultrasound and CT imaging	2
The air up there - Chilaiditi's syndrome: A case report and review of the literature	2
SARS-CoV-2 in children and their accompanying caregivers: Implications for testing strategies in resource limited hospitals	2
A cohort of pediatric injury patients from a hospital-based trauma registry in Northern Tanzania	2
A descriptive study of trauma patients transported by helicopter emergency medical services to a level one trauma centre	2
Assault-injured youth in the emergency centres of Khayelitsha, South Africa: A prospective study of recidivism and mortality	2
From the pandemic's front lines: A social responsibility initiative to develop an international free online emergency medicine course for medical students	2
Patients' satisfaction with emergency care services in a University Teaching Hospital in South-West, Nigeria	2
Do-it-yourself PET-bottle manikin: An understudied means for enhancing massive CPR training in a simple and affordable way	2
Road traffic accident clinical pattern and management outcomes at JUMC Emergency Department; Ethiopia	2
Knowledge retention and usefulness of simulation exercises for disaster medicine - what do specialty trainees know and think?	2
Comparison of the effects of different treatment protocols on mortality in patients presenting with an INR≥10 due to warfarin-associated over-anticoagulation	2
Prevalence and correlates of depression and substance use disorders in emergency department populations: A cross-sectional study at East Africa's largest public hospital	2
Assessment of substance use among injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya	2
A mandatory Emergency Medicine clerkship influences students' career choices in a developing system	2
Evaluation, management, and analysis of demographic and radiological characteristics of patients with renal colic at a tertiary hospital in Somalia	1
The lived experiences of emergency care personnel in the Western Cape, South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal hermeneutic phenomenological study	1
Spectrum of urological emergencies and surgical interventions in a single tertiary health center	1
Strengthening prehospital clinical practice guideline development in South Africa: Reflections from guideline experts	1
An evaluation of basic life support training among medical students in Southwest Nigeria: A web-based study	1
How Health Care Practitioners experience emergencies at Primary Health Care facilities – Kinks in the chain of survival	1
Trauma provision in South-West Nigeria: Epidemiology, challenges and priorities	1
Patients requiring palliative care attending a regional hospital emergency centre in South Africa: A descriptive study	1
Compliance with hygiene practices among healthcare workers at an academic hospital emergency department	1
Experiences and Interventions by Botswana police officers in providing emergency care in road traffic collisions in the greater Gaborone region	1
Drug and alcohol use in Tanzanian road traffic collision drivers	1

Standardised management of atraumatic epistaxis for improved outcomes in an emergency department with off-site ear, nose and throat cover - A quality improvement project	1
Epidemiological profile and performance of triage decision-making process of COVID-19 suspected cases in southern Tunisia	1
Paediatric emergency care at an academic referral hospital in Mozambique	1
Antivenom supply and demand: An analysis of antivenom availability and utilization in South Africa	1
A 12-month retrospective descriptive analysis of a single helicopter emergency medical service operator in four South African provinces	1
Community‐acquired pneumonia and its predictors of mortality in rural southwestern Nigeria: A‐five year retrospective observational study	1
Prognostic accuracy of eight triage scores in suspected COVID-19 in an Emergency Department low-income setting: An observational cohort study	1
Could lung ultrasound be used instead of auscultation?	1
Physicians' knowledge and practice concerning diagnosis and management of anaphylaxis: The situation in Egypt	1
Strengthening emergency care by developing data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries	1
Out of hospital emergency care in Nigeria: A narrative review	1
Occupational blood and body fluid exposure among emergency medical service providers in the eThekwini metropole of South Africa	1
Chest trauma epidemiology and emergency department management in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kigali, Rwanda	1
The ethical considerations for emergency care research in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of the published literature	1
Palliation, end-of-life care and burns; practical issues, spiritual care and care of the family – A narrative review II	1
Analysis of risk factors for wound infection after extremity fracture caused by machete cut in a resource-limited setting	1
Challenges and opportunities to improve efficiency and quality of prehospital emergency care using an mHealth platform: Qualitative study in Rwanda	1
Association between volume resuscitation & mortality among injured patients at a tertiary care hospital in Kigali, Rwanda	1
Frailty screening of Tunisian older adults: feasibility and usefulness in the Emergency Department	1
Clinical profile and outcomes of trauma patients visiting the emergency department of a trauma center Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	1
A cross sectional study of the availability of paediatric emergency equipment in South African emergency units	1
Knowledge in pre-hospital emergency and risk management among outdoor adventure practitioners in East Africa afro-alpine mountains	1
Paediatric Emergency Department preparedness in Nigeria: A prospective cross-sectional study	1
The characteristics of geriatric patients managed within the resuscitation unit of a district-level emergency centre in Cape Town	1
Physical restraint within the prehospital Emergency Medical Care Environment: A scoping review	1
The views and experiences of candidates and graduates from a South African emergency medicine doctoral programme	1
Factors affecting initiation of palliative care in a Ugandan Emergency Department	1
Low prevalence of atrial fibrillation in ischaemic stroke: Underestimating a modifiable risk factor	1
Bedside colorimetric reagent dipstick in the diagnosis of meningitis in low– and middle–income countries: A prospective, international blinded comparison with laboratory analysis	1
Utilisation of peripheral vasopressor medications and extravasation events among critically ill patients in Rwanda: A prospective cohort study	1
Systematic review on epidemiology, interventions and management of noncommunicable diseases in acute and emergency care settings in Kenya	1
Description and analysis of the emergency obstetric interfacility ambulance transfers (IFTs) to Kawempe National Referral Hospital in Uganda	1
Preparedness is key - the challenge of COVID-19 in low resource settings: four checklists from Doctors Worldwide to prepare for COVID-19	1
Protocolized emergency department observation care improves quality of ischemic stroke care in Haiti	1
Non-specialist emergency medicine qualifications in Africa: Lessons from the South African Diploma in Primary Emergency Care	1
The understandability and quality of telephone-guided bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the Western Cape province of South Africa: A manikin-based study	1
Assessment of documented adherence to critical actions in paediatric emergency care at a district-level public hospital in South Africa	1
Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience	1
Epidemiology and outcomes of geriatric trauma patients consulting at the center hospitalier universitaire de Kigali emergency department	1
Outcomes of patients with thoraco-abdominal gunshot wounds operatively managed at a district hospital in Cape Town, South Africa	1
Clinical impact of a prehospital trauma shock bundle of care in South Africa	1
Successful use of an improvised bubble CPAP device for severe respiratory distress caused by pulmonary tuberculosis	1
The views and experiences of Zambia's emergency medicine registrars in South Africa: Lessons for the development of emergency care in Zambia	1
The state of emergency medical technician education in Ghana	1
The barriers and facilitators to the telephonic application of the FAST assessment for stroke in a private emergency dispatch centre in South Africa	1
Profile of referrals to an intensive care unit from a regional hospital emergency centre in KwaZulu-Natal	1
The reporting of adverse events in Johannesburg Academic Emergency Departments	1
Clinical mortality risk factors of variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a Malagasy surgical intensive care unit	1
Age-related laryngoscopic visual acuity	1