The European Journal of Emergency Medicine is the official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine. It is devoted to serving the European emergency medicine community and to promoting European standards of training, diagnosis and care in this rapidly growing field.

Published bimonthly, the Journal offers original papers on all aspects of acute injury and sudden illness, including: emergency medicine, anaesthesiology, cardiology, disaster medicine, intensive care, internal medicine, orthopaedics, paediatrics, toxicology and trauma care. It addresses issues on the organization of emergency services in hospitals and in the community and examines postgraduate training from European and global perspectives. The Journal also publishes papers focusing on the different models of emergency healthcare delivery in Europe and beyond. With a multidisciplinary approach, the European Journal of Emergency Medicine publishes scientific research, topical reviews, news of meetings and events of interest to the emergency medicine community.

Editor
Professor Yonathan Freund
Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
Service d’Accueil des Urgences
83 Boulevard de l’Hôpital
Paris 75103
France
yonathanfreund@gmail.com

Deputy Editors

Benjamin Bloom
Barts Health NHS Trust
Queen Mary University of London
United Kingdom

Mikkel Brabrand
Hospital of South West Jutland
Denmark


Youri Yordanov
AP-HP - Saint-Antoine
France

Editorial Board
Wilhelm Behringer
Jena University
Germany
Joost Bierens
Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel
Belgium
Adrian Boyle
Cambridge University
United Kingdom
Maaret Castrén
Karolinska Institutet 
Sweden
Giles N. Cattermole
Princess Royal University Hospital
United Kingdom
Jim Connolly
Newcastle General Hospital 
United Kingdom
Alasdair Corfield
Royal Alexandra Hospital 
United Kingdom
Francois-Xavier Duchateau
Beaujon University Hospital 
France
Ives Hubloue
UZ Brussel
Belgium

Annmarie T. Lassen
Odense University Hospital 
Denmark
Oscar Miro
Hospital Clinic, Catalonia 
Spain
Martin Möckel
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin 
Germany
Luc Mortelmans
ZNA Stuivenberg
Belgium
Christian H. Nickel
University Hospital Basel 
Switzerland
Mar Ortega
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona
Spain
Marc Sabbe
University Hospitals Leuven 
Belgium
Charles E. Stewart
University of Oklahoma
USA
Abel Wakai
Beaumont Hospital
Ireland

Previous Editors

Colin A. Graham
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong
Patrick Plunkett 
St James's Hospital 
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Herman Delooz 
(Founding Editor)
Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium