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“Born from the ashes to blossom” … a short insight into the development of TACC
Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care 5 (2015) 49
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EDITORIAL
“Born from the ashes to blossom” … a short insight into the development of TACC When Brian Pollard wrote his editorial in the first issue of the newly inaugurated TACC he was referring to the magic of JK. Rowling when in “Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets” a phoenix was reborn from ashes. Brian referred to the former journal “Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care” that has become reborn as Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care (TACC). Over the last years TACC established itself as an journal to provide current approaches to anaesthesia and critical care medicine, to educate the community, to provide space for opinions and comments on that as well as to open discussions about controversial topics. From the beginning it was decided not to create a new peer-reviewed journal for original research articles. The anasethesia and critical care community have enough and we are faced with a tsunami of open pay-for-publishing journals. Often we do not know about the value of these journals. Over the last period the editorial board also decided to accept case reports or case series if they provide substantial insight into clinical problems and provide a strong learning input that might affect clinical practice. All these articles in TACC are peer reviewed, knowing that this system might not be the best but we do not have anything better for the moment. To get TACC to the next level the former editorial board members were asked to stay, but some took the opportunity to orient their interests to other tasks. In an effort to have a broad variety of experts and specialists covering the wide area of our specialty several colleagues agreed to volunteer as editorial board members and new for TACC as section editors. The task will be to attract more authors to write up contributions for the journal, to enhance the peer-review process, to provide comments or editorials, and to function as Editors for issues of TACC. The entire board invites all readers to submit manuscripts within the scope of TACC and one of my aims as Editor-in-chief is to speed-up the review and production process to get your articles published as soon as possible. You will be surprised at what ideas have been suggested and how we aim to bring them to publication in the future. We will have a strong focus on state-of-the-art articles with clear and easy to understand educational purposes. As the editor-in-chief I like to see submissions of articles that can be used for teaching purposes on all levels of our educational process. Too often I cannot find a nice summary or an overview for my residents to read and then discuss in formal sessions. That might be a very general view on a topic or really specialized articles going into the depth of recent encountered new insights in anesthesia, pain medicine or critical care medicine. It is our vision to provide something for everyone, for students, trainees, basic scientists, clinical scientists, hard-working clinicians and hopefully for all the sub-specialists of anesthesia and critical http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tacc.2015.04.002 2210-8440/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
care. We hope that you will enjoy reading TACC, start to contribute leading to advancements in anaesthesia and critical care. Finally I welcome all new members of the 2015 editorial board. I have to thank for their engagement and willingness to participate in such an adventure, editing a journal, in times with tremendous clinical workload on all of us, more and more (nasty) administrative load, for all in teaching hospitals we are engaged in educating future highly qualified colleagues and at the university hospitals we are obliged to come up with new exciting results from high stake studies. Doing all that it is not as a matter of course to volunteer as an editorial board member for an up-coming journal that still is trying to establish its position between all the other journals of the specialty and to grow a bit higher than all the other trees in the wood to be seen and recognized from far away as important for the wood which needs to be there to support the development of anaesthesia and critical care medicine. For the 2015 Editorial Board of TACC in alphabetic order: O. Akca, Louisville, USA (Section Editor Critical Care Medicine) F.J. Belda. Valencia, Spain (Section Editor Ventilation) Y.K. Chan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Section Editor Obstetric Anesthesia and Analgesia) P. Chazot, Durham, UK (Section Editor Neuropharmacology) A. Chhabra, New Delhi, India (Section Editor Regional Anesthesia) R. De Gaudio, Firenze, Italy (Board Member) E. De Roberto, Naples, Italy (Section Editor Emergency Medicine and Trauma) R.T. Greif*, Bern, Switzerland (Editor-in-Chief) N.C. Hwang, Singapore (Section Editor Cardiothoracic Anesthesia) C. Kumar, Singapore (Board Member) B. MacIver, Stanford, California, USA (Section Editor Central Nervous System and Anaestetic Mechanism) F. Petrini, Chieti, Italy (Section Editor Intensive Care Medicine) G. Savoldelli, Geneva, Switzerland (Section Editor Simulation and Medical Education) C.P. E. Seet, Singapore, (Board Member) E.A.T. Shipton, Christchurch, New Zealand (Board Member) A.T. Sia, Singapore (Board Member) J. Sleigh, Auckland, New Zealand (Board Member) M. Sorbello, Catania, Italy (Section Editor Sepsis) L.G. Theiler, Bern, Switzerland (Section Editor Airway Management) R.T. Greif, Editor-in-Chief University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland E-mail address: [email protected].
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tacc
EDITORIAL
“Born from the ashes to blossom” … a short insight into the development of TACC When Brian Pollard wrote his editorial in the first issue of the newly inaugurated TACC he was referring to the magic of JK. Rowling when in “Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets” a phoenix was reborn from ashes. Brian referred to the former journal “Current Anaesthesia and Critical Care” that has become reborn as Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care (TACC). Over the last years TACC established itself as an journal to provide current approaches to anaesthesia and critical care medicine, to educate the community, to provide space for opinions and comments on that as well as to open discussions about controversial topics. From the beginning it was decided not to create a new peer-reviewed journal for original research articles. The anasethesia and critical care community have enough and we are faced with a tsunami of open pay-for-publishing journals. Often we do not know about the value of these journals. Over the last period the editorial board also decided to accept case reports or case series if they provide substantial insight into clinical problems and provide a strong learning input that might affect clinical practice. All these articles in TACC are peer reviewed, knowing that this system might not be the best but we do not have anything better for the moment. To get TACC to the next level the former editorial board members were asked to stay, but some took the opportunity to orient their interests to other tasks. In an effort to have a broad variety of experts and specialists covering the wide area of our specialty several colleagues agreed to volunteer as editorial board members and new for TACC as section editors. The task will be to attract more authors to write up contributions for the journal, to enhance the peer-review process, to provide comments or editorials, and to function as Editors for issues of TACC. The entire board invites all readers to submit manuscripts within the scope of TACC and one of my aims as Editor-in-chief is to speed-up the review and production process to get your articles published as soon as possible. You will be surprised at what ideas have been suggested and how we aim to bring them to publication in the future. We will have a strong focus on state-of-the-art articles with clear and easy to understand educational purposes. As the editor-in-chief I like to see submissions of articles that can be used for teaching purposes on all levels of our educational process. Too often I cannot find a nice summary or an overview for my residents to read and then discuss in formal sessions. That might be a very general view on a topic or really specialized articles going into the depth of recent encountered new insights in anesthesia, pain medicine or critical care medicine. It is our vision to provide something for everyone, for students, trainees, basic scientists, clinical scientists, hard-working clinicians and hopefully for all the sub-specialists of anesthesia and critical http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tacc.2015.04.002 2210-8440/© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
care. We hope that you will enjoy reading TACC, start to contribute leading to advancements in anaesthesia and critical care. Finally I welcome all new members of the 2015 editorial board. I have to thank for their engagement and willingness to participate in such an adventure, editing a journal, in times with tremendous clinical workload on all of us, more and more (nasty) administrative load, for all in teaching hospitals we are engaged in educating future highly qualified colleagues and at the university hospitals we are obliged to come up with new exciting results from high stake studies. Doing all that it is not as a matter of course to volunteer as an editorial board member for an up-coming journal that still is trying to establish its position between all the other journals of the specialty and to grow a bit higher than all the other trees in the wood to be seen and recognized from far away as important for the wood which needs to be there to support the development of anaesthesia and critical care medicine. For the 2015 Editorial Board of TACC in alphabetic order: O. Akca, Louisville, USA (Section Editor Critical Care Medicine) F.J. Belda. Valencia, Spain (Section Editor Ventilation) Y.K. Chan, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Section Editor Obstetric Anesthesia and Analgesia) P. Chazot, Durham, UK (Section Editor Neuropharmacology) A. Chhabra, New Delhi, India (Section Editor Regional Anesthesia) R. De Gaudio, Firenze, Italy (Board Member) E. De Roberto, Naples, Italy (Section Editor Emergency Medicine and Trauma) R.T. Greif*, Bern, Switzerland (Editor-in-Chief) N.C. Hwang, Singapore (Section Editor Cardiothoracic Anesthesia) C. Kumar, Singapore (Board Member) B. MacIver, Stanford, California, USA (Section Editor Central Nervous System and Anaestetic Mechanism) F. Petrini, Chieti, Italy (Section Editor Intensive Care Medicine) G. Savoldelli, Geneva, Switzerland (Section Editor Simulation and Medical Education) C.P. E. Seet, Singapore, (Board Member) E.A.T. Shipton, Christchurch, New Zealand (Board Member) A.T. Sia, Singapore (Board Member) J. Sleigh, Auckland, New Zealand (Board Member) M. Sorbello, Catania, Italy (Section Editor Sepsis) L.G. Theiler, Bern, Switzerland (Section Editor Airway Management) R.T. Greif, Editor-in-Chief University Hospital Bern and University of Bern, Department of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland E-mail address: [email protected].