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Emergency general surgery

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2013
Acute care surgery encompasses trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery (EGS). While the first two components are well defined, the scope of EGS practice remains unclear. This article describes the work of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma to define EGS.A total of 621 unique International Classification of Diseases-
Shahid, Shafi, Michel B, Aboutanos, Suresh, Agarwal, Carlos V R, Brown, Marie, Crandall, David V, Feliciano, Oscar, Guillamondegui, Adil, Haider, Kenji, Inaba, Turner M, Osler, Steven, Ross, Grace S, Rozycki, Gail T, Tominaga   +12 more
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EMERGENCY SURGERY

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1947
You have heard this morning an excellent resume of the "advances" made in various surgical fields in the treatment of injuries during World War II. The presentations of Drs. Woodhall, Imes, Blades and Cleveland and Professor Sedden have covered the best of the collected knowledge of our military forces and represent the methods of treatment which had ...
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Risk assessment in emergency general surgery

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2018
Patients with emergency general surgery (EGS) diseases display variable severity. The extent of disease can be amplified by comorbidity or dramatic changes in presenting physiology. Estimating the extent of disease severity in order to adequately provide prognosis, determine optimal operative or non-operative management, and plan for potential outcomes
Matthew C, Hernandez, Joaquim M, Havens, Shahid, Shafi, Marie, Crandall   +3 more
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Seasonal Variation in Emergency General Surgery

Annals of Surgery, 2016
The aim of this study was to assess the seasonal variation in emergency general surgery (EGS) admissions.Seasonal variation in medical conditions is well established; however, its impact on EGS cases remains unclear.The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database was queried over an 8-year period (2004-2011) for all patients with diagnosis of acute ...
Bardiya, Zangbar, Peter, Rhee, Viraj, Pandit, Chiu-Hsieh, Hsu, Mazhar, Khalil, Terence, Okeefe, Leigh, Neumayer, Bellal, Joseph   +7 more
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Damage Control Surgery and Transfer in Emergency General Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2023
Selective non traumatic emergency surgery patients are targets for damage control surgery (DCS) to prevent or treat abdominal compartment syndrome and the lethal triad. However, DCS is still a subject of controversy. As a concept, DCS describes a series of abbreviated surgical procedures to allow rapid source control of hemorrhage and contamination in ...
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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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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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General Surgery During Pregnancy and Gynecologic Emergencies

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2023
Nonobstetrical surgical emergencies can occur throughout pregnancy but are often difficult to diagnose due to the physiologic and anatomical changes that occur during pregnancy. Medical providers should have insight into these changes and be familiar with options for the diagnosis and management of common nonobstetrical surgical emergencies, such as ...
Raymond, Traweek, Vivy, Phan, Chad, Griesbach, Chad, Hall   +3 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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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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