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01-12-2006 | Editorial
Introducing World Journal of Emergency Surgery
Authors:
Fausto Catena, Ernest E Moore Jr
Published in:
World Journal of Emergency Surgery
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Issue 1/2006
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Excerpt
About a year ago I contacted Professor Moore in Denver and presented the idea of founding an Emergency Surgery Journal for worldwide participation. He replied immediately that it was a very timely concept because a new discipline termed " acute care surgeon " was being developed in the USA to meetthe expanding roleof trauma surgeons, and that he was aware that this construct existed in other countries. In fact, there are no specific peer-reviewed emergency surgery journals, although several journals exist in the field of trauma surgery, including "Injury", "The Journal of Trauma", "The Panamerican Journal of Trauma", "Shock", "Turkish Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery " [
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