AI in Pre-hospital & Critical Care: Innovations & Future

Source: biomedcentral.com

Published on June 23, 2025

Federico Semeraro, MD, FERC, from the Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Ospedale Maggiore, Italy and Theresa M Olasveengen, MD, PhD, from the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Norway, are calling for submissions to the Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine Collection on “Artificial Intelligence in Pre-hospital and Critical Care: Innovations, Applications, and Future Directions.”

This collection is focused on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in pre-hospital and critical care settings and seeks to inform clinicians, researchers, and policymakers about the potential of AI to improve outcomes in emergency medicine.

Topics of interest include:

  • AI-based triage tools
  • Early warning systems
  • Predictive analytics in EMS
  • Decision support systems for cardiac arrest and trauma
  • Wearable and ambient sensing for out-of-hospital monitoring
  • Integration of AI with dispatch and navigation systems
  • Ethical and regulatory considerations
  • Real-world validation of AI tools in high-stakes environments

Original research, scoping reviews, methodological papers, and implementation case studies from academic and clinical perspectives are welcomed.

The collection seeks to inform clinicians, researchers, and policymakers about the current landscape and future potential of AI-driven innovations to improve outcomes in emergency medicine. There are currently no articles in this collection.

This Collection welcomes submission of research, scoping reviews, methodological papers, and implementation case studies from academic and clinical perspectives. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read oursubmission guidelinesto confirm that type is accepted by the journal.

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system,Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Artificial Intelligence in Pre-hospital and Critical Care: Innovations, Applications, and Future Directions” under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’sstandard peer-review processand are subject to all the journal’s standardpolicies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.