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European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

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01-08-2014 | Editorial

Introduction to the 5th focus-on issue devoted to disaster and military surgery

Authors: F. Turégano, S. Lennquist

Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery | Issue 4/2014

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The fifth Focus-On Issue devoted to Disaster and Military Surgery in this journal is dedicated to several different fields within this topic. The first two papers deal with educational and training issues. One of them describes current challenges in the training of military surgeons, and reports the experience from Dutch combat operations in Afghanistan [ 1]. The surgical workload is compared to that of the surgical residents and the pre-deployment medical specialist program. Their findings are interesting, and the authors call into question the current civilian resident training, which is far away from the competencies of a fully trained military surgeon. They recommend the recognition of military surgery as a subspecialty within general (trauma) surgery in the Netherlands, and also the introduction of a NATO Military (and Disaster) surgery standard. …

Hoencamp R, Tan ECTH, Idenburg F, Ramasamy A, van Egmond T, Leenen LPH, Hamming JF. Challenges in training of military surgeons: experiences from Dutch combat operations in Southern Afghanistan. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0401-z.

Lennquist Montán K, Hreckovski B, Dobson B, Örtenwall P, Montán C, Khorram-Manesh A, Lennquist S. Development and evaluation of a new simulation model for interactive training of the medical response to major incidents and disasters. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2013. doi: 10.1007/s00068-013-0350-y.

Ashkenazi I, Turégano-Fuentes F, Einav S, Kessel B, Alfici R, Olsha O. Pitfalls to avoid in the medical management of mass casualty incidents following terrorist bombings: the hospital perspective. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0403-x.

Turégano-Fuentes F, Pérez-Diaz D, Sanz-Sánchez M, Alfici R, Ashkenazi I. Abdominal blast injuries: different patterns, severity, management, and prognosis according to the main mechanism of injury. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0397-4.

Mattox K. The ebb and flow of fluid (as in resuscitation). Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0437-0.

Riddez L. Wounds of war in the civilian sector-principles of treatment and pitfalls to avoid. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0395-6.

Lennquist S. Husum H, Ang SC, Fosse E, editors. War Surgery, 2nd Edition. Trauma Care Foundation, University Hospital North, Norway 2011. ISBN 978-983-2729-21-1. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 2014. doi: 10.1007/s00068-014-0402-y.

Title: Introduction to the 5th focus-on issue devoted to disaster and military surgery
Authors: F. Turégano
S. Lennquist
Publication date: 01-08-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 1863-9933
Electronic ISSN: 1863-9941
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-014-0428-1

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