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General and Emergency Surgery

2017
General surgery encompasses upper GI, lower GI and breast surgery and the operations can be divided into emergency and elective procedures. As a medical student there are common procedures and anatomy you are expected to know about, which we will describe in this chapter.
Anisha Sukha, Charlotte Ratcliff, Chiara Ventre, Gregory Ekatah, Rebecca A. Fisher, Rebecca Ross-Browne   +5 more
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Acute care surgery and emergency general surgery

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2016
The formation of Acute Care Surgery services leads to decreased time to treatment and improved outcomes for emergency general surgery (EGS) patients. However, minimal work has focused on the ideal care delivery system and team structure. We hypothesize that the implementation of a dedicated EGS team (separate from trauma and surgical critical care ...
Brandon Robert, Bruns, Ronald B, Tesoriero, Mayur, Narayan, Lindsay, OʼMeara, Margaret H, Lauerman, Barbara, Eaton, Anthony V, Herrera, Thomas Michael, Scalea, Jose J, Diaz   +8 more
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Weekend Effect in Operative Emergency General Surgery

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2019
Evidence of a "weekend effect" is limited in emergency general surgery (EGS). We hypothesized that there are increased rates of complications, death, and failure-to-rescue (FTR) in patients undergoing weekend EGS operations.National Inpatient Sample (NIS) data, January 2014-September 2015 were used.
Justin S, Hatchimonji, Elinore J, Kaufman, Catherine E, Sharoky, Lucy W, Ma, Daniel N, Holena   +4 more
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Research in Emergency General Surgery

2020
The ever increasing need to optimize healthcare costs associated with increasing quality of care has placed the magnifying glass on some aspects and on some sectors that were previously not considered.
Fausto Catena, Gennaro Perrone, Elena Bonati, Antonio Tarasconi, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Ron Maier   +5 more
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Emergency General Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2023
Viren Premnath Punja, Paul J. Schenarts
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Quality Improvement in Emergency General Surgery

Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2022
Geeta, Aggarwal, Sam, Huddart, Nial, Quiney, Michael, Scott, Carol J, Peden   +4 more
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Resuscitation in Emergency General Surgery

2020
Emergency general surgical patients often present with shock, requiring resuscitation and stabilisation before transfer to the operating theatre. The causes of shock in this patient cohort are varied due to the heterogeneous group of conditions managed by general surgeons. Hypovolaemic, septic and haemorrhagic shock are most commonly encountered. While
Liam S. O’Driscoll, Alison Johnston, Noel Hemmings, Michael Sugrue, Manu L. N. G. Malbrain   +4 more
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The Tides of Change: Emergencies in General Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2023
Viren Premnath, Punja, Paul J, Schenarts
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Antibiotics in Emergency General Surgery

2018
Emergency general surgery patients are at risk for a variety of primary or secondary infectious complications. Clinicians must have a balanced approach to antibiotic therapy to ensure successful eradication of infections while minimizing the risk for propagating antibiotic resistance.
Mitchell J. Daley, Emily K. Hodge, Dusten T. Rose   +2 more
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Emergency General Surgery in the Elderly

2020
An increasing life expectancy has led to demographic changes in developed countries, which has led to the dilemma of performing emergency general surgery (EGS) in the elderly (Soreide et al. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg MedScand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 23:10, 2015; Desserud et al. Br J SurgBr J Surg. 103:e52, 2016.
Jorge Con, Shekhar Gogna, Rifat Latifi
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