About the Journal

Revista Chronos Urgência

First national scientific journal in this editorial line, of Continuous Publication (rolling pass), with articles evaluated by members of the editorial board and ad hoc reviewers. Its dissemination is made exclusively through digital means, offered for free access, non-profit, without any costs for the reader or for the publication of the articles.

Concepts, ideas and opinions issued in the manuscripts, as well as the accuracy, adequacy, spelling and grammatical revision and origin of the bibliographic references, are the sole responsibility of the author (s), not necessarily reflecting the position of the Editorial Board of the Revista Chronos Urgência (Rev. Chronos Urg.).

Mission

Contribute to the strengthening of activities aimed at urgent and emergency care, through the sharing of evidence, practices, reflections, experiences and their results, for the development of this same area of ​​knowledge and for the best professional performance at the pre, intra and post-hospital.

Objective

Publish unpublished works that address scientific research in the form of articles, bringing a new view on previously published knowledge. These texts, which are the responsibility of their authors, do not necessarily express the point of view of the Editorial Board and can be presented in the following categories: editorial, original article, review, reflection, experience reports and reviews.

Brief history

Rev. Chronos Urg. it is edited by the Center for Permanent Education of the SAMU 192 - Regional Fortaleza (NEP SAMUFor), under the responsibility of the Head of Research and Educational Technologies, in open format and by exclusive electronic means. In the maturation phase since 2016, and using the OJS system, we started our activities in 2021, already adopting the Continuous Publication (rolling pass) strategy.

e-ISSN: 2763-5872

Scope

Rev. Chronos Urg. operates in the following Thematic Areas and Axis:

Thematic Area 1: Health Promotion (and Prevention of Diseases) in Urgency

• Axis 1 - Role of Health Surveillance: epidemiological surveillance, health surveillance and environmental surveillance as health promotion and prevention of health problems in urgency;
• Axis 2 - Education in Urgency: education in urgency as health promotion, popular education; programs for the training of laypeople in basic life support; teaching emergency care in HEIs; and
• Axis 3 - Epidemiology in Urgency: intervention, case-control, cohort, cross-sectional studies, ecological studies of temporal and spatial distribution, from pre-hospital care requests to acute conditions of epidemiological importance and accessibility to emergency services.

Thematic Area 2: Emergency Health Policies and Practices

• Axis 1 - Reception with Risk Classification in Urgent Care: National Humanization Policy; Emergency Risk Classification;
• Axis 2 - Health and Work Policies in the Emergency Department: National Emergency Care Policy; Worker's health; and
• Axis 3 - Public Health Urgencies: health action in disasters (preparation, response and recovery); multiple victim incidents; mass contamination incidents; outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics; lack of assistance.

Thematic Area 3: Emergency Management

• Axis 1 - Management of Health Care Equipment for Emergency Care: management of emergency care services (hospital, pre-hospital and post-hospital); emergency health care management; health systems management for urgency;
• Axis 2 - Regulation of Urgencies within the scope of the National Regulation Policy: regulation protocols; medical training; regulation of special situations (disasters, inter-unit removal, emergency medical transport); telehealth and telemedicine; and
• Axis 3 - Disaster Management: interinstitutional integration; organization of the disaster scene; command system in incidents; search and rescue in collapsed structures; psychology and integrative medicine in the disaster.

Thematic Area 4: Technologies and Innovation in Urgency

• Axis 1 - Technologies and means of Information and Communication: telematics and radiocommunication in urgency; mobile systems and applications; “Bigdata” for urgent management decision;
• Axis 2 - Technology and Innovation in Teaching-learning: methodologies, strategies, tools and innovative educational objects in urgency; use of simulators in the emergency room; virtual reality; augmented reality; and
• Axis 3 - Emergency Care Technologies: use of technologies in emergency care (light, light-hard and hard); use of equipment, materials and medications in emergency care; basic, intermediate and advanced life support in the emergency room.

Thematic Area 5: Historicity & Philosophy

• Axis 1 - Landmarks of Urgency: historical reports of the social and political events that structure the assistance to urgency in health today;
• Axis 2 - Temporality and Health Narratives: objective and subjective time in narrating the urgency in health; and
• Axis 3 - Anthropology and Deontology in Health: conceptions of life and health, between birth and death; morals and ethics in emergency management, regulation, assistance and education.

Privacy Statement

The names and addresses informed in this magazine will be used exclusively for the services provided by this publication, and will not be made available for other purposes or to third parties.

Peer Review Process

The evaluation method chosen is the double blind review, where the identity of authors and reviewers is omitted.

Reviwers

Rev. Chronos Urg. it has external reviewers to carry out the evaluation process.

Peer review

The manuscript will be sent for analysis and issue of opinion by two referees, researchers of established competence in the area of ​​knowledge of the manuscript. Throughout the process, confidentiality and anonymity are adopted for the author (s) and the rapporteur (s). The analysis by the rapporteurs is based on the Analysis and Opinion Instrument.

The Editorial Board of the Journal has full decision-making authority over the selection and publication of manuscripts, when they present the requirements adopted for the evaluation of their scientific merit, considering their originality, priority, opportunity, clarity and knowledge of the relevant literature and adequate definition of the studied subject.

Monitoring the article evaluation process

The author can follow the editorial flow of the article through the system https://chronos.samu.fortaleza.ce.gov.br/index.php/urgencia/. Decisions about the article will be communicated by e-mail and made available on the system.

Frequency

Rev. Chronos Urg. adopts publication in continuous flow, known as Continuous Publication (rolling pass), that is, we receive texts at any time of the year. The articles are published on the magazine's website, exclusively in PDF format, and the editions are completed annually.

Open Access Policy

This magazine offers immediate Open Access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public free of charge provides greater worldwide democratization of knowledge. Therefore, there is no cost to download files.

Archiving Policy

Rev. Chronos Urg. uses the PKP Preservation Network (PN),  LOCKSS and CLOCKSS filing system. The LOCKSS system (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) to ensure safe and permanent archiving of your magazine's cache, are supported by OJS.

Sources of Indexing

Intellectual property

For the use of the article in open access, Revista Chronos Urgência is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Creative Commons License

This license maximizes the dissemination and use of licensed materials as it allows others to distribute, remix, adapt and create from your work for non-commercial purposes and, although new works must give you due credit for the original creation to the author and publication by Rev. Chronos Urg. and cannot be used for commercial purposes, users do not have to license these derivative works under the same terms.

Funding source

SAMU 192 – Regional Fortaleza