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ArticleWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2020

Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the "navy seals paradigm").

Fausto Catena, Walter Biffl, Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Yoram Kluger, Ernest E Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini

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Article in World journal of emergency surgery : WJES, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. The LIFE TRIAD of emergency general surgery.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022
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  5. The WSES: what do we see in the future?World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Fausto CatenaDepartment of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Walter BifflTrauma and Acute Care Surgery, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA.
Belinda De SimoneDepartment of General, Emergency, Metabolic Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Poissy/Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Poissy, France. desimone.belinda@gmail.com.
Massimo SartelliDepartment of General Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Salomone Di SaverioCambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.
Yoram KlugerDivision of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Ernest E MooreErnest E Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health and University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Luca AnsaloniDepartment of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Federico CoccoliniGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Dept, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emergency surgeons have a crucial role in bridging the gap of skills resulting from the well-known general surgery fragmentation. The multi-specialist general surgery approach is still necessary to define proper diagnosis and therapy priorities in an emergency. Governments have to find effective organizational solutions to maintain emergency general surgery standards of care and to improve them further.

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Clinical CompetenceEmergenciesGeneral SurgerySpecializationHumansPractice Patterns, Physicians'Academic educationEmergency surgeryGeneral surgeryHealth systemOrganizational solutionSurgical training

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PMID32050987
PMCPMC7017518

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