Trauma critical care focus on traumatic injury, as well as a wide range of subjects within this general field. Emphasizing clinical applications, techniques, and new developments in trauma care, each issue presents practical information of immediate use to the physician caring for critically injured patients. The impact factor of journal provides quantitative assessment tool for grading, evaluating, sorting and comparing journals of similar kind. It reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in science and social science journals in a particular year or period, and is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field. It is first devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information. The impact factor of a journal is evaluated by dividing the number of current year citations to the source items published in that journal during the previous two years.

Trauma is a psychological response to a abhorrent events such as an accident, rape or natural disaster. The immediate effects following the event are shock, stress and denial. The effects in Long term reactions include unpredictable emotions, mood swings, memory flashbacks, strained relationships and even physical symptoms like headaches or nausea. Some effect rendering the subject in a situation where they experience difficulty moving on with their lives.