Aims and Scope
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open (TSACO) 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. TSACO 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
- Reviews on the following topics:
- Orthopaedic 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
- Patient management reports in resource-poor settings
- Pilot studies of new technologies or techniques
- Clinical case series
TSACO is supported by the global brands of The AAST and BMJ.
Journal Statistics
Frequency |
Continuous online publication |
Launch date |
May 2016 |
ISSN |
2397-5776 |
Related Publications
The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery provides an interdisciplinary forum for the dissemination of peer-reviewed original articles regarding trauma and acute care surgery. Content focuses on the clinical management of trauma, emergency surgery, the care of critically ill patients, the molecular biology of traumatic injury, and legal/policy concerns related to trauma.
Affiliations
The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma is the premier academic trauma surgery organization in the United States and has approximately 1,200 members from 30 countries. http://www.aast.org/
Dryad is an international repository of data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Dryad enables scientists to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies. BMJ has been working with Dryad since 2010.
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines. BMJ has been a member since 2009.
Open Access articles in Trauma Surgery and Acute Care Open are licensed using either Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) or Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license. These licenses let others distribute, remix, tweak and build upon your work.