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A narrative review of advances in emergency and critical care medicine in 2025: from bundle-based care to precision phenotyping and pragmatic implementation

In this narrative review, we synthesize clinically relevant advances reported from November 2024 through December 15, 2025, with selective inclusion of foundational studies when needed for context. Our objective is not to provide an exhaustive catalog of all publications, but to identify the major conceptual and practice shifts most likely to influence adult emergency and critical care medicine. We focus on supportive care, systems redesign, personalized supportive therapy, precision phenotyping, and pragmatic implementation, with emphasis on patient-important outcomes, feasibility, and implications for bedside decision-making and future research.

Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine 2025 CiteScore Released: 0.9

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) has achieved its 2025 CiteScore: 0.9, ranking 81 out of 111 journals in the Emergency Medicine category and 92 out of 122 journals in the Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine category. This milestone underscores our ongoing commitment to publishing impactful research in the field.

AME and Wolters Kluwer aim to expand access to global medical research through new collaboration

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Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) is now a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

Starting from July 2021, AME Publishing Company is formally recognized a publisher member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and over 60 AME-published journals become a member of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), as part of AME’s commitment to best practice in scholarly publishing. Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM) is among the list of COPE membership.

AME entered an official partnership with Publons to enhance wide-ranging recognition for reviewers

AME Publishing Company entered an official partnership with Publons, a product of Clarivate Analytic Company (which owns Web of Science, EndNote, ScholarOne, among many others), as of April 2020. Around 60 AME journals’ peer review systems are now integrated seamlessly into the Publons platform (https://publons.com/about/home). The partnership was done to recognize our expert peer reviewers spontaneously for their review contribution.

Implementation of transparent peer review at Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine (JECCM)

With a commitment to openness and accountability, and to increase the level of transparency throughout our peer review process, our editorial office has decided to implement a transparent peer review process as an option for all manuscripts submitted to JECCM from March 19, 2020.

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The Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine welcomes case reports which are supposed to report new observations of diseases, clinical findings or novel/unique treatment outcomes relevant to practitioners in the fields of medicine.

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The Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine is an open-access, peer-reviewed online journal, aiming to improve the care of patients with emergency and critical illness by acquiring, discussing, distributing, and promoting evidence-based information relevant to emergency physicians and intensivists. Specific areas of interest include, but not limited to trauma, anaesthesiology, respiratory failure, sepsis, cardiovascular disease, healthcare-associated infections prevention, end-of-life care and etc.

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