African Journal of Emergency Medicine

Papers
(The TQCC of African Journal of Emergency Medicine is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
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 Africa63
Medical student satisfaction and confidence in simulation-based learning in Rwanda – Pre and post-simulation survey research14
Survival status and predictors of mortality among traumatic brain injury patients in an Ethiopian hospital: A retrospective cohort study14
Patterns of road traffic accident, nature of related injuries, and post-crash outcome determinants in western Ethiopia - a hospital based study13
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 review13
Building focused cardiac ultrasound capacity in a lower middle-income country: A single centre study to assess training impact13
Interpretation of emergency CT scans in polytrauma: trauma surgeon vs radiologist13
Results from the implementation of the World Health Organization Basic Emergency Care Course in Lagos, Nigeria11
WITHDRAWN: COVID-19 Severity Scoring Tool for low resourced settings11
Trauma burden, patient demographics and care-process in major hospitals in Tanzania: A needs assessment for improving healthcare resource management10
Level of emergency and disaster preparedness of public hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study9
Two simple replacements for the Triage Early Warning Score to facilitate the South African Triage Scale in low resource settings9
Palliation, end-of-life care and burns; concepts, decision-making and communication – A narrative review9
Facilitating the development of emergency nursing in Africa: Operational challenges and successes9
Management of acute fever in children: Consensus recommendations for community and primary healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa9
Clinical outcome and comparison of burn injury scoring systems in burn patient in Indonesia9
Temporal changes in trauma according to alcohol sale restrictions during the South African national COVID-19 lockdown9
Patterns of injury at an Ethiopian referral hospital: Using an institutional trauma registry to inform injury prevention and systems strengthening8
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 Africa8
Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa: Efforts, recommendations and challenges at hand8
Design and construction of a simplified, gas-driven, pressure-controlled emergency ventilator8
Malaria and COVID-19: A double battle for Burundi8
The status and future of emergency care in the Republic of Kenya7
Drug dosing errors in simulated paediatric emergencies – Comprehensive dosing guides outperform length-based tapes with precalculated drug doses7
Telephonic description of sepsis among callers to an emergency dispatch centre in South Africa7
Application of the World Health Organization's Basic Emergency Care course in Zambia6
A baseline review of the ability of hospitals in Kenya to provide emergency and critical care services for COVID-19 patients6
Climate change and emergency care in Africa: A scoping review6
Impact of structured basic life-support course on nurses' cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills: Experience of a paediatric department in low-resource country6
Emergency department management of traumatic brain injuries: A resource tiered review6
African Federation for Emergency Medicine resources for managing COVID-19 in low resourced settings6
Ricin poisoning after oral ingestion of castor beans: A case report and literature review6
Trauma training in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review of ATLS alternatives6
Injured and broke: The impacts of the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) on service delivery and catastrophic health expenditure among seriously injured children6
A comparative study on the diagnostic validity of three scoring systems in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis in emergency centres6
Diagnostic accuracy and reliability of smartphone captured radiologic images communicated via WhatsApp®6
A mandatory Emergency Medicine clerkship influences students' career choices in a developing system5
The characteristics and outcomes of trauma admissions to an adult general surgery ward in a tertiary teaching hospital5
Injury burdens and care delivery in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic in Kigali, Rwanda: A prospective interrupted cross-sectional study5
Reasons for patients with non-urgent conditions attending the emergency department in Kenya: A qualitative study5
Epidemiology of prehospital trauma deaths in Malawi: A retrospective cohort study5
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 learned5
Rapid reversal of vasoplegia with methylene blue in calcium channel blocker poisoning5
Awareness and attitude of final year students towards the learning and practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria5
Clinical teams' experiences of crowding in public emergency centres in Cape Town, South Africa5
Guidance we can trust? The status and quality of prehospital clinical guidance in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review5
Comparison of inferior vena cava collapsibility and central venous pressure in assessing volume status in shocked patients5
An assessment of Nurses' knowledge, attitude and practice of emergency care related to road traffic accident victims at three selected hospitals in Rwanda5
Health-related reasons patients transfer from a clinic or health post to the Emergency Department in a District Hospital in Botswana4
Colchicine overdose: A South African experience, a case report4
Measuring patient experience in the emergency department: A scoping review4
Observed benefits of a major trauma centre in a tertiary hospital in Nigeria4
A comparison of the effectiveness of QCPR and conventional CPR training in final-year medical students at a South African university4
Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of first aid among taxi operators in a Kampala City Taxi Park, Uganda: A cross-sectional study4
Providing end-of-life care in the emergency department: Early experience from Médecins Sans Frontières during the Covid-19 pandemic4
Factors affecting utilization of traditional bonesetters in the Northern Region of Ghana4
The effects of the COVID-19 lockdown and alcohol restriction on trauma-related emergency department cases in a South African regional hospital4
The effect of personal protective equipment on cardiac compression quality4
An analysis of the descriptors of acute myocardial infarction used by South Africans when calling for an ambulance from a private emergency call centre4
Barriers to the implementation of prehospital thrombolysis in the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in South Africa: An exploratory inquiry4
The accuracy of nurse-led triage of adult patients in the emergency centre of urban private hospitals4
Factors which affect the application and implementation of a spinal motion restriction protocol by prehospital providers in a low resource setting: A scoping review4
After-hour trauma-radiograph interpretation in the emergency centre of a District Hospital4
An electronic survey of preferred podcast format and content requirements among trainee emergency medicine specialists in four Southern African universities4
Areas of delay related to prolonged length of stay in an emergency department of an academic hospital in South Africa4
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 Iran4
Firearm injuries among children due to the Kivu conflict from 2017 to 2020: A hospital-based retrospective descriptive cohort study4
Stroke knowledge among emergency centre visitors: A cross-sectional multicenter survey4
A retrospective comparison of the burden of organophosphate poisoning to an Intensive Care Unit in Soweto over two separate periods4
Access to acute stroke care: A retrospective descriptive analysis of stroke patients’ journey to a district hospital4
Prevalence and outcome of sepsis and septic shock in intensive care units in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A prospective observational study3
A prospective, internal validation of an emergency patient triage tool for use in a low resource setting3
Delayed presentation of paracetamol overdose3
Assessment of substance use among injured persons seeking emergency care in Nairobi, Kenya3
Feasibility of project ECHO telementoring to build capacity among non-specialist emergency care providers3
Reaching further: Lessons from the implementation of the WHO Basic Emergency Care Course Companion App in Tanzania3
Evaluation of the clinical outcome of captopril use for hypertensive urgency in Khartoum State's emergency centres3
The utility of serial chest X-rays for detection of delayed pneumothorax, haemothorax or haemopneumothorax following penetrating thoracic injury3
Training, knowledge, experience and perceptions regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation of doctors at an academic hospital in central South Africa3
Developing sustainable prehospital trauma education in Rwanda3
Pre-course online cases for the world health organization's basic emergency care course in Uganda: A mixed methods analysis3
Core competencies required by toxicology graduates in order to function effectively in a Poisons Information Centre: A Delphi study3
Prevalence and risk factors of acute kidney injury in polytrauma patients at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute, Tanzania3
Factors influencing willingness to intervene as bystanders among adult residents living in crash-prone areas in the Ashanti region of Ghana3
A qualitative study of COVID-19 related reasons for delayed presentation of patients with chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic3
Combat injuries sustained by troops on counter terrorism and counter-insurgency operations in North east Nigeria: Implications for intervention3
Family presence during patient acute deterioration: A survey of nurses' attitudes and reflection on COVID-19 in an African setting3
Ethylene glycol poisoning: A diagnostic challenge in a patient with persistent seizures and a severe metabolic acidosis3
The air up there - Chilaiditi's syndrome: A case report and review of the literature3
Awareness, attitude and perceived knowledge regarding First Aid in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: A cross-sectional household survey3
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 hospi3
Non-operative management of blunt abdominal solid organ trauma in adult patients3
Streamlining referral decisions for childhood poisoning: a cross-sectional study from a tertiary children's hospital in Cape Town, South Africa3
Pattern of trauma in elderly patients seen at the trauma centre of national hospital Abuja, Nigeria3
Emergency medicine as a career: Knowledge, attitudes and predictors in Nigerian medical students3
A descriptive study of the use of cardiac point of care ultrasound (PoCUS) in public emergency centres in Cape Town3
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 study3
The burden of HIV and tuberculosis on the resuscitation area of an urban district-level hospital in Cape Town3
Prevalence and presentation of neonatal sepsis at a paediatric emergency department in Johannesburg, South Africa3
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