Call for papers — Special Issue: Anaesthesia and intensive care in wartime and conflict-affected settings

The Croatian Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine (CJAIM) announces a special issue dedicated to anaesthesia, perioperative care, resuscitation, and intensive care medicine in wartime, armed conflict, and other high-threat, resource-constrained environments where routine hospital practice is disrupted. Accepted articles will be published in CJAIM (this journal; https://ojs.srce.hr/cjaim), not in companion titles such as CJAIM+.

Contemporary conflicts and humanitarian emergencies generate clinical experience that is difficult to reproduce in peacetime training. Much of that knowledge remains under-represented in the indexed medical literature. This Special Issue aims to capture practical lessons that are ethically publishable, methodologically sound, and useful to colleagues who may face similar challenges in the future.

Guest Editor: Dmytro Dmytriiev, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, Ukraine (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-681X).

We welcome submissions from:
• clinicians with direct field experience in conflict zones or adjacent medical systems;
• military medical personnel;
• humanitarian and NGO medical teams;
• hospital teams managing surge, evacuation, or mass-casualty care linked to conflict or instability;
• researchers studying organisation of care, triage, damage-control approaches, logistics, education, or outcomes in these contexts.

Indicative topics (non-exhaustive):
• airway, analgesia, and anaesthesia in damage-control surgery and prolonged field care;
• intensive care in austere settings (ventilation, renal replacement, infection control, nursing ratios);
• mass-casualty reception, triage, and inter-facility transfer;
• blood products, haemostasis, and resuscitation strategies under constraint;
• paediatric, obstetric, and burn care in conflict-related caseloads;
• ethical, legal, and security considerations in publishing operational experience (without compromising safety or confidentiality);
• training, simulation, and knowledge transfer for civilian and military providers.

Manuscript types follow regular CJAIM author guidelines (original research, reviews, case reports, editorials, letters). Submissions need to follow basic research ethics rules; if security or patient privacy restricts information, authors should clearly describe these limitations in the Methods section or in a separate statement.

Submission deadline: TBA / open-ended at the moment
Planned CJAIM issue / publication window: TBA / 2027

Submit through the journal’s online system:
https://ojs.srce.hr/cjaim

Author information:
https://ojs.srce.hr/cjaim/about/submissions

Questions to the Editorial Office:
editorial@cjaim.org

CJAIM is open access; there are no article processing charges (APCs), in line with the journal’s standard policy.

The Editorial Team
Croatian Journal of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Medicine (CJAIM)