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Acute Care Surgery Around the World: Future Perspectives

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Acute care surgery (ACS) is a new specialty crafted by the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) to solve the loss of appeal for a trauma career. In several other countries, inadequate health care delivery for emergency surgery patients and a vanishing glory of general surgery prompted a second look at this new paradigm. It is now taking hold all over the world and is gaining in popularity. In this chapter, we will summarize the current status around the world of this rapidly growing field and forecast future projections of where it is bound.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA

    Rao R. Ivatury MD, FACS, FCCM

  2. Emergency Surgery Department, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy

    Fausto Catena MD

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  1. Emergency and Trauma Surgery Service, C.A. Pizzardi Maggiore Hospital AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Salomone Di Saverio

  2. Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

    Fausto Catena

  3. General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

    Luca Ansaloni

  4. General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

    Federico Coccolini

  5. Trauma, Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    George Velmahos

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Ivatury, R.R., Catena, F. (2017). Acute Care Surgery Around the World: Future Perspectives. In: Di Saverio, S., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L., Coccolini, F., Velmahos, G. (eds) Acute Care Surgery Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15341-4_1

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