ArticleWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2018
WSES worldwide emergency general surgery formation and evaluation project.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- 2020 WSES guidelines for the detection and management of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2021Guideline
- Readmission to hospital following laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a meta-analysis.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2020Pooled it
- The extended postoperative complication score: A dual-axis reporting plan for general surgery.The journal of trauma and acute care surgery · 2026Article
- World Congress of Trauma and Emergency Leagues (WCTEL): looking for the future.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2026Article
- Integrating acute care surgery in South Korea: enhancing trauma and non-trauma emergency care.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2025Review
- Dissecting inequity: global systematic review of trauma clinical guidance.Trauma surgery & acute care open · 2025Article
- Acute diverticulitis in immunocompromised patients: evidence from an international multicenter observational registry (Web-based International Register of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, Wires-T).Techniques in coloproctology · 2023Article
- Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS®) Society Consensus Guidelines for Emergency Laparotomy Part 3: Organizational Aspects and General Considerations for Management of the Emergency Laparotomy Patient.World journal of surgery · 2023Review
- The LIFE TRIAD of emergency general surgery.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Article
- Research priorities in emergency general surgery (EGS): a modified Delphi approach.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Article
- WSES guidelines updates.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2020Article
- Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the "navy seals paradigm").World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2020Article
- The impact of computed radiography and teleradiology on patients' diagnosis and treatment in Mweso, the Democratic Republic of Congo.PloS one · 2020Article
- GI Surgical Emergencies: Scope and Burden of Disease.Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract · 2019Review
- Challenges faced by acute care surgeons in China.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2019Article
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Abstract
Optimal management of emergency surgical patients represents one of the major health challenges worldwide. Emergency general surgery (EGS) was identified as multidisciplinary surgery performed for traumatic and non-traumatic acute conditions during the same admission in the hospital. EGS represents the easiest viable way to provide affordable and high-quality level of care to emergency surgical and trauma patients. It may result from the association of different physicians with other specialties in a cooperative model. The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) has been working on the EGS organization and implementation since its foundation believing in the need of common benchmarks for training and educational programs throughout the world. This is a plea in different languages to all World Prime Ministers and Presidents to support the creation in all nations of an organized hub-spoke system for emergency general surgery to improve standards of care and to save lives.
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