A year of contemplation: looking back and moving forward

1757-7241-17-31 1757-7241 Editorial A year of contemplation: looking back and moving forward Søreide Kjetil ksoreide@mac.com Lossius Morten Hans hans.morten.lossius@snla.no

Department of Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway

Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Norwegian Air Ambulance, Drøbak, Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 1757-7241 2009 17 1 31 http://www.sjtrem.com/content/17/1/31 19594902 10.1186/1757-7241-17-31 06 7 2009 13 7 2009 13 7 2009 2009 Søreide and Lossius; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Editorial

As we enter July 2009, we are pleased to have passed the first 365 days of being an open access, freely available online journal on the World Wide Web and indexed in Pubmed. Currently 49 papers have been published and several more are awaiting publication in the near future. We experience a steady and sound inflow of new manuscripts submitted to the Journal, and are in the position to select those deemed to be of most value, with a rejection rate above 50% at present. Indeed, based on the understanding that management of emergencies, injuries and critically ill patients is multidisciplinary team-work, the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine (SJTREM) has not only matured1 and grown up2, it has also found its place in the joint area of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. Those who think that the year of success would lead us to rest on the laurels of the past should think again. We envision further growth and aim for higher standards and call for increased multidisciplinary input to the Journal in the years to come!

The Journal has over the past year received and published original and review papers from several Scandinavian research groups 34567891011. Also, contributions from several international researchers including the USA 12131415, several European countries (e.g. UK, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Greece) 16171819202122, and even Asia 23 are influencing the Journal content. Currently, we have submissions in-house from virtually all corners of the world, with several contributors outside Scandinavia and Europe. We believe this demonstrates the increasing global impact of the Journal and hope to establish a truly international profile and outreach while not loosing the vision of being a forum for scientific exchange and improvements for Scandinavian countries in particular. Also, the Journal has supported and published abstracts from international congresses, with the supplements from the London Trauma Conference available on the website24, and the abstracts for the 3rd Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine and the Research Symposium 2009 for the Danish Society of Emergency Medicine will follow soon.

The success of the Journal is measured also by the number of accessed papers – currently, more than 10 of the published papers have been accessed over 1000 times, even though many of them have been available for only a few months on the Web, and 3 papers have been accessed more than 2000 times each132526. The international consensus paper by Ringdal et al26 has even been included in the "Faculty of 1000 medicine" with almost 5000 hits in less than one year.

We strive to ensure high visibility of the Journal, and have for 2008 published a yearbook, which has been distributed to several hundred participants at the Scandinavian Update conference as well as to a wide number of libraries and research institutions. The success of this publication will be repeated for 2009, thus ensuring high visibility both electronically as well as on paper.

Several of the current progresses and developments will hopefully ensure SJTREM a proper index in MEDLINE and indexing in the Journal Citation Report©, which will provide us with an official impact factor (IF) in the near future. We are confident that the time the IF is released it will reflect an already highly visible and dynamic forum for publication in trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine. However, knowing the success of any journal is only dependant on three factors – the authors, the peer-reviewers and notably the readers – we want to forward our sincere thanks to those contributing their efforts, sharing their thoughts and devoting their time to ensure the scientific and educational value of the Journal. All peer-reviewers will be appropriately acknowledged in the paper version of the yearbook. For those of you interested in the yearbook, please contact editorial@sjtrem.com. We would also welcome the readers' feedback on the Journal – be it positive or negative.

Authors' information

Kjetil Søreide and Hans Morten Lossius are Editors-in-Chief of Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

The Journal 1994–2007: a maturing teenager Søreide K Lossius HM Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2007 15 201 202 The Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine – grown up at last Lossius HM Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 1 2556639 18957061 10.1186/1757-7241-16-1 Out of hospital cardiac arrest outside home in Sweden, change in characteristics, outcome and availability for public access defibrillation Ringh M Herlitz J Hollenberg J Rosenqvist M Svensson L Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 18 2678978 19374752 10.1186/1757-7241-17-18 Medical emergency motorcycle – is it useful in a Scandinavian Emergency Medical Service? Nakstad AR Bjelland B Sandberg M Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 9 2652419 19239681 10.1186/1757-7241-17-9 Incidence of hospital referred head injuries in Norway: A population based survey from the Stavanger region Heskestad B Baardsen R Helseth E Romner B Waterloo K Ingebrigtsen T Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 6 2650679 19232086 10.1186/1757-7241-17-6 A systematic review of controlled studies: do physicians increase survival with prehospital treatment? Botker MT Bakke SA Christensen EF Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 12 2657098 19265550 10.1186/1757-7241-17-12 Pre-hospital advanced airway management by anaesthesiologists: Is there still room for improvement? Sollid SJ Heltne JK Soreide E Lossius HM Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 2 2556637 18957064 10.1186/1757-7241-16-2 The early minutes of in-hospital cardiac arrest: Shock or CPR? A population based prospective study Skogvoll E Nordseth T Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 11 2568951 18957063 10.1186/1757-7241-16-11 Pre-notification of arriving trauma patient at trauma centre: A retrospective analysis of the information in 700 consecutive cases Handolin LE Jaaskelainen J Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 15 2612016 19019252 10.1186/1757-7241-16-15 Scandinavian Emergency Medicine – A toddler steadily walking but still not running Castren M Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 6 2568946 18957068 10.1186/1757-7241-16-6 Retroperitoneal packing as part of damage control surgery in a Danish trauma centre – fast, effective, and cost-effective Bach A Bendix J Hougaard K Christensen EF Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 4 2556636 18957066 10.1186/1757-7241-16-4 Surgical management of penetrating pulmonary injuries Petrone P Asensio JA Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 8 2650680 19236703 10.1186/1757-7241-17-8 Management of burn injuries – recent developments in resuscitation, infection control and outcomes research Dries DJ Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 14 2666628 19284591 10.1186/1757-7241-17-14 Penetrating abdominal injuries: management controversies Butt MU Zacharias N Velmahos GC Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 19 2674409 19374761 10.1186/1757-7241-17-19 Management of the critically poisoned patient Boyle JS Bechtel LK Holstege CP Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 29 10.1186/1757-7241-17-29 19563673 Necrotizing Fasciitis of the lower extremity: a case report and current concept of diagnosis and management Naqvi GA Malik SA Jan W Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 28 2704167 19527519 10.1186/1757-7241-17-28 Non-operative management of blunt abdominal trauma. Is it safe and feasible in a district general hospital? Giannopoulos GA Katsoulis IE Tzanakis NE Patsaouras PA Digalakis MK Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 22 2689852 19439091 10.1186/1757-7241-17-22 Low central venous saturation predicts poor outcome in patients with brain injury after major trauma: a prospective observational study Di Filippo A Gonnelli C Perretta L Zagli G Spina R Chiostri M Gensini GF Peris A Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 23 2694764 19460137 10.1186/1757-7241-17-23 Undisclosed cocaine use and chest pain in emergency departments of Spain Burillo-Putze G Lopez B Leon JM Sanchez MS Gonzalez MG Rodriguez AD Afonso EV Sosa AJ Miro O Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 11 2660281 19254377 10.1186/1757-7241-17-11 Prehospital airway management: the patient needs oxygen! Genzwuerker HV Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 3 2556638 18957065 10.1186/1757-7241-16-3 Clinical presentation of a traumatic cervical spine disc rupture in alpine sports: a case report Ecker TM Kleinschmidt M Martinolli L Zimmermann H Exadaktylos AK Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 14 2596173 19014511 10.1186/1757-7241-16-14 Isolated vertebral fractures give elevated serum protein S-100B levels Benneker LM Leitner C Martinolli L Robert K Zimmermann H Exadaktylos AK Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 13 2586018 18992158 10.1186/1757-7241-16-13 Arterial embolization of an extrapleural hematoma from a dislocated fracture of the lumbar spine: a case report Morita S Tsuji T Fukushima T Yamagiwa T Otsuka H Inokuchi S Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 27 2700073 19508736 10.1186/1757-7241-17-27 The Third Annual London Trauma Conference London, UK. 12–14 November 2008. Abstracts Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 Suppl 1 O1 5 10.1186/1757-7241-17-S1-O1 19281623 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome: pathophysiology and definitions Cheatham ML Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2009 17 10 2654860 19254364 10.1186/1757-7241-17-10 The Utstein template for uniform reporting of data following major trauma: A joint revision by SCANTEM, TARN, DGU-TR and RITG Ringdal KG Coats TJ Lefering R Di Bartolomeo S Steen PA Roise O Handolin L Lossius HM Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med 2008 16 7 2568949 18957069 10.1186/1757-7241-16-7