Inauguration of the Journal of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

Emergency and critical care medicine are specialties facing life-threatening emergencies such as stroke, acute myocardial infarction, and severe trauma. The management of these critical illnesses requires rapid responses and accurate triage. However, most practices in emergency room and intensive care unit (ICU) lack high-level evidence. As a result, most of the practices thought to be true in the present may be proven to be wrong decades later.