ArticleWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2022
The LIFE TRIAD of emergency general surgery.
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64 authors at 20 institutions in 26 countries.
Federico CoccoliniGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy. federico.coccolini@gmail.com.
Massimo SartelliGeneral and Emergency Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Yoram KlugerDivision of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Aleksei OsipovEmergency Surgery, Emergency Surgery of the Research Institute of Emergency Medicine Named After I.I. Dzhanelidze, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Yunfeng CuiDepartment of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Solomon Gurmu BekaGeneral Surgery, Ethiopian Air Force Hospital, Bishoftu, Oromia, Ethiopia.
Andrew KirkpatrickGeneral, Acute Care, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada.
Ibrahima SallDepartment of General Surgery, Hôpital Principal de Dakar Military Teaching Hospital, Dakar, Sénégal.
Ernest E MooreErnest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, Denver, CO, USA.
Walter L BifflTrauma Surgery Department, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Andrey LitvinDepartment of Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Michele PisanoEmergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
Stefano MagnoneEmergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
Edoardo PicettiICU Department, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Nicola de AngelisUnit of General Surgery, CARE Department Henri Mondor University Hospital (AP-HP), Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris Est, UPEC, Créteil, France.
Philip StahelCollege of Osteopathic Medicine, Rocky Vista University, Parker, CO, 80134, USA.
Luca AnsaloniGeneral Surgery, Pavia University Hospital, Pavia, Italy.
Edward TanEmergency Medicine Department, Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Fikri Abu-ZidanDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE.
Marco CeresoliGeneral Surgery Department, Monza University Hospital, Monza, Italy.
Andreas HeckerDepartment of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
Osvaldo ChiaraEmergency and Trauma Surgery, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Gabriele SgangaEmergency and Trauma Surgery, Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy.
Vladimir KhokhaGeneral Surgery Department, Mozyr Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus.
Salomone di SaverioASUR Marche, AV5, Hospital of San Benedetto del Tronto, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy.
Boris SakakushevGeneral Surgery Department, Plovdiv University Hospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Giampiero CampanelliGeneral Surgery Department, Insubria University, Varese, Italy.
Gustavo FragaGeneral Surgery Department, Campinas University, Campinas, Brazil.
Imtiaz WaniDepartment of Minimal Access and General Surgery, Government Gousia Hospital, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Richard Ten BroekSurgery Department, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Enrico CicuttinGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy.
Camilla CremoniniGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy.
Dario TartagliaGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy.
Kjetil SoreideDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.
Joseph GalanteTrauma Department, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
Marc de MoyaTrauma/Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Kaoru KoikeDepartment of Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Kyoto, Japan.
Belinda De SimoneVisceral and Metabolic Minimally Invasive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy/Saint Germain en Laye, Saint Germain en Laye, France.
Zsolt BaloghDepartment of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Francesco AmicoDepartment of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Vishal ShelatHPB Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Tan Tock Seng, Singapore.
Emmanouil PikoulisGeneral Surgery, Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece.
Isidoro Di CarloDepartment of Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Luigi BonavinaGeneral Surgery, San Donato Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Ari LeppaniemiHelsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Ingo MarziDepartment of Trauma, Hand-, and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Rao IvaturyDepartment of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, VA, USA.
Jim KhanUniversity of Portsmouth UK & Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust UK, Portsmouth, UK.
Ronald V MaierDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, USA.
Timothy C HardcastleDepartment of Surgery, Nelson R. Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
Arda IsikDivision of General Surgery, School of Medicine, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Kadıkoy/Istambul, Turkey.
Mauro PoddaDepartment of Surgical Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
Matti TolonenHUS Abdominal Center, Emergency Surgery, Meilahti Tower Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Kemal RasaDepartment of General Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaeli, Turkey.
Pradeep H NavsariaTrauma Center, Groote Schuur Hospital and University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Zaza DemetrashviliGeneral Surgery, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Antonio TarasconiEmergency Surgery Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Paolo CarcoforoDepartment of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Ferrara and University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Maria Grazia SibillaDepartment of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University Hospital of Ferrara and University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
Gian Luca BaiocchiGeneral Surgery, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
Nikolaos PararasGeneral Surgery, Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece.
Dieter WeberDepartment of General Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Division of Surgery, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Massimo ChiarugiGeneral, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Via Paradisia 1, 56100, Pisa, Italy.
Fausto CatenaEmergency and Trauma Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana · ITJohn Hunter Hospital · AUNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GROspedale Papa Giovanni XXIII · ITRadboud University Nijmegen · NLUniversity of Ferrara · ITAgostino Gemelli University Polyclinic · ITAnadolu University · TRAzienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda · ITCentre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Poissy · FRDenver Health Medical Center · USFoothills Medical Centre · CAGoethe University Frankfurt · DEGovernment Medical College · INHerttoniemi Hospital · FIHôpital Principal de Dakar · SNHôpitaux Universitaires Henri-Mondor · FRImmanuel Kant Baltic Federal University · RUIstanbul Medeniyet University · TRKyoto Medical Center · JP
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Abstract
Emergency General Surgery (EGS) was identified as multidisciplinary surgery performed for traumatic and non-traumatic acute conditions during the same admission in the hospital by general emergency surgeons and other specialists. It is the most diffused surgical discipline in the world. To live and grow strong EGS necessitates three fundamental parts: emergency and elective continuous surgical practice, evidence generation through clinical registries and data accrual, and indications and guidelines production: the LIFE TRIAD.
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