RT Book, Section
A1 Lewis, Anthony J.
A1 Rosengart, Matthew R.
A1 Peitzman, Andrew B.
A2 Moore, Ernest E.
A2 Feliciano, David V.
A2 Mattox, Kenneth L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1141185437
T1 Acute Care Surgery
T2 Trauma, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847292
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1141185437
RD 2024/04/23
AB Over  the  past  decade  the  organization  of  a  new  paradigm  in  the  management  of  acutely  ill  surgical  patients  has  emerged,  one  emphasizing  surgeons  trained  in  trauma,  emergency  general  surgery,  and  surgical  critical  care.1  The  need  has  been  established  for  a  specialized  group  of  surgeons  to  care  for  patients  with  “time  sensitive  surgical  disease”  of  high  acuity,  at  any  time  of  the  day  or  night,  regardless  of  the  patients’  insurance  or  other  social  factors.2  This  comes  at  a  time  where  we  are  experiencing  an  ever-increasing  volume  of  emergency  general  surgery  patients,  with  estimates  revealing  in  excess  of  27.6  million  emergency  general  surgery  hospital  admission  over  the  past  decade.3  To  address  this  need,  the  specialty  of  acute  care  surgery  (ACS)  was  proposed  by  the  American  Association  for  the  Surgery  of  Trauma  (AAST).  Acute  care  surgery  as  initially  presented  was  comprised  of  trauma,  surgical  critical  care,  and  emergency  surgery.  We  have  redefined  the  five  components  of  ACS  as  trauma,  surgical  critical  care,  emergency  surgery,  elective  general  surgery,  and  surgical  rescue  (Fig.  6-1).