The Acute Care Surgery Initiative
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Abstract
Acute Care Surgery describes a new surgical practice paradigm and a surgical training curriculum. This article will highlight the history and driving forces behind this initiative, describe the training curriculum and its requirements, and discuss the practice and setting of a surgeon trained in this area of expertise. While there are no new technical surgeries represented in the model, it is a unique way to utilize surgical expertise that is focused on emergent and acute problems. The purpose of this article is to make the reader aware of this model of surgical care, and to consider the advantages to incorporating this into their own environment. It is unclear if this practice paradigm, which is remarkably attractive to graduates of US general surgery training programs, will become more international in scope.
Keywords:
Surgery, Surgery Initiative, Acute Care, Acute Care Surgery Initiative
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JURKOVIH, Gregory Jerome.
The Acute Care Surgery Initiative.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 7.1, july 2023.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4069>. Date accessed: 15 may 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i7.1.4069.
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34. Austin MT, Diaz JJ, Jr., Feurer ID, et al. Creating an emergency general surgery service enhances the productivity of trauma surgeons, general surgeons and the hospital. J Trauma. 2005;58(5):906-910.
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