February 2026 global research highlights

a small group of selected journals of international emergency medicine societies to share from each a highlighted research study as selected monthly by their editors.Our goals are to increase awareness of our readership to research developments in the international emergency medicine literature, promote collaboration among the selected international emergency medicine journals, and support the improvement of emergency medicine world-wide as described in the WAME statement at http://www.wame. org/about/policy-statements#Promoting%20Global%20 Health.Abstracts are reproduced as published in the respective participating journals and are not peer reviewed or edited by the Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. African Journal of Emergency Medicine (AfJEM) The official journal of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, the Emergency Medicine Association of Tanzania, the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa, the Egyptian Society of Emergency Medicine, the Libyan Emergency Medicine Association, the Ethiopian Society of Emergency Medicine Professionals, the Sudanese Emergency Medicine Society, and the Society of Emergency Medicine Practitioners of Nigeria and the Rwanda Emergency Care Association(The print version of this article has been scheduled for January 2026.) Consensus-based research priorities for postcollision care in the Western Cape province of South Africa