Abstract
Optimal management of emergency surgical patients represents one of the major health challenges worldwide. Emergency general surgery (EGS) was identified as multidisciplinary surgery performed for traumatic and non-traumatic acute conditions during the same admission in the hospital. EGS represents the easiest viable way to provide affordable and high-quality level of care to emergency surgical and trauma patients. It may result from the association of different physicians with other specialties in a cooperative model. The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) has been working on the EGS organization and implementation since its foundation believing in the need of common benchmarks for training and educational programs throughout the world. This is a plea in different languages to all World Prime Ministers and Presidents to support the creation in all nations of an organized hub-spoke system for emergency general surgery to improve standards of care and to save lives.
Highlights
Optimal management of emergency surgical patients represents one of the major health challenges worldwide
Emergency general surgery (EGS) represents the easiest viable way to provide affordable and high-quality level of care to emergency surgical and trauma patients taking into account the pathophysiology, surgical and trauma emergencies, and critical care [4]
It may result from the association of different physicians with other specialties in a cooperative model
Summary
Optimal management of emergency surgical patients represents one of the major health challenges worldwide. * Correspondence: federico.coccolini@gmail.com 1General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, 47521 Cesena, Italy Full list of author information is available at the end of the article different providers may even be represented by the only general surgeon.
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