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Bringing critical emergency medicine, resuscitation and trauma education and training back to armed rivalry-affected community: why the conflict in Sudan matters?

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  1. Trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, King Fahad Hospital of the University, Al Aqrabiyah, Al Khobar, 34445, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Ayman O. Nasr

  2. Human Resuscitation Organization, AlRiyadh District, Khartoum, Sudan

    Ayman O. Nasr & Mahmoud T. Mustafa

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, Clinical Hospital Merkur, Zajceva 19, 10 000, Zagreb, Croatia

    Ileana Lulic

  4. Department of Surgery, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Anlaby Rd, Hull, HU3 2JZ, UK

    Jonathan Tilsed

  5. Department of Emergency Medicine, Saint James Hospital, George Borg Olivier St, Sliema, SLM 1807, Malta

    Dinka Lulic

  6. Department of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine, Transfusion Medicine and Pain Therapy, EvKB University Hospital of Bielefeld, Campus Bethel, Burgsteig 13, Bielefeld, Germany

    Karl Thies

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Contributions

AON: Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Supervision. IL: Conceptualization, Writing-original draft, Supervision. MTM: Conceptualization, Writing-review & editing. JT: Conceptualization, Writing-review & editing. DL: Conceptualization, Writing-original draft. KT: Conceptualization, Writing-review & editing, Supervision.

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The authors report no financial conflicts of interest related to this publication. Ayman Osman Nasr is the president of the Human Resuscitation Organisation and a member of the European Trauma Course Organisation's Education Committee. Ileana Lulic is a member of the European Resuscitation Council's Advanced Life Support Science and Education Committee and the European Trauma Course Organisation's Education Committee. Jonathan Tilsed is vice president of the European Society of Trauma and Emergency Surgery. Dinka Lulic declares no conflicts of interest. Karl Thies is the Chairperson of the European Trauma Course Organisation.

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Nasr, A.O., Lulic, I., Mustafa, M.T. et al. Bringing critical emergency medicine, resuscitation and trauma education and training back to armed rivalry-affected community: why the conflict in Sudan matters?. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 49, 2633–2635 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-023-02302-z

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