“There is… a fundamental workforce issue that can only deteriorate as more and more
specialists come off the emergency rotation. Several years ago the Americans saw this train …

The challenges now facing the trauma profession are unprecedented. Decreasing
reimbursements, malpractice issues, the paucity of operative cases, the difficult work …

A quiet revolution in American surgery has occurred over the past 10-15 years, with the
emergence of acute care surgery as a true specialty, and apparently the heir to general …

The genesis of this project is a direct result of the fact that there is no substantive textbook
that addresses the full-spectrum of surgical emergencies. Even in a field in which there is a …

BACKGROUND Trauma and emergency surgery continues to evolve as a surgical niche.
The simple fact that The Journal of Trauma is now entitled The Journal of Trauma and Acute …

Within the context of modern health care, the field of trauma surgery has been remarkably
successful. The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT) can trace …

Since the development of an advanced training program known as Acute Care Surgery by
the professional trauma societies of North America, some general surgeons have argued …

Background: The evolving discipline of acute care surgery as an expansion of trauma
surgery is undergoing intense critique. As we envision this new paradigm of surgical …

As with many things in medicine, the specialty of acute care surgery (ACS) was born out of
necessity and innovation. Over the past several decades, a crisis in access to emergency …

Over the past 10 years, acute care surgery has become widely accepted as a distinct
surgical specialty and practice paradigm, encompassing 3 areas of surgical practice: trauma …