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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Basic Surgery | Letter to the Editor

Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the “navy seals paradigm”)

Authors: Fausto Catena, Walter Biffl, Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Yoram Kluger, Ernest E. Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini

Published in: World Journal of Emergency Surgery | Issue 1/2020

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Emergency surgeons have a crucial role in bridging the gap of skills resulting from the well-known general surgery fragmentation. The multi-specialist general surgery approach is still necessary to define proper diagnosis and therapy priorities in an emergency. Governments have to find effective organizational solutions to maintain emergency general surgery standards of care and to improve them further.

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Title: Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the “navy seals paradigm”)
Authors: Fausto Catena
Walter Biffl
Belinda De Simone
Massimo Sartelli
Salomone Di Saverio
Yoram Kluger
Ernest E. Moore
Luca Ansaloni
Federico Coccolini
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keyword: Basic Surgery
Published in: World Journal of Emergency Surgery / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1749-7922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-020-0293-7

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