Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open

Scope

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)’s open access journal dedicated to the rapid publication of peer-reviewed, high-quality trauma and acute care research. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open provides an interdisciplinary forum for global issues in trauma and acute care surgery much like its sister journal, Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery. Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open is dedicated to covering epidemiological, educational, and socioeconomic facets of trauma management and injury prevention and will cover topics of interest and relevance to the global acute care surgery community, as well as affiliated subspecialty physicians and advanced practitioners. Papers of interest include: Reporting of clinical studies Training and implementation reports Survey-based research Orthopedic trauma, TBI, injury prevention, public health, global systems development, disaster and mass casualty management Use of new technologies as they relate to trauma education and treatment Reviews on the following topics: patient management reports in resource-poor settings, pilot studies of new technologies or techniques Clinical case series.