Editorial Comment 

Excerpt

In the article of Dr. Babu, a timely discussion on acute care surgery is coined. It details the problems that occurred in the USA after a decrease in operative interventions in trauma patients for the (general) trauma surgeon. After their quest for further adequate fulfilment of their operative tableau, they changed their focus from only trauma to acute care surgery in a more broad sense, even changing the title of their periodical accordingly. Dr. Babu asks himself (and the orthopaedic community in his country) what these changes mean for the practice pattern in trauma and who should take care of the trauma patient. As many trauma patients need orthopaedic trauma care, he rightfully asks how the future will be for the combination with general trauma care. Who takes care of the general trauma patient? Who will take care of the acute orthopaedic trauma patient? Is there a place for a general trauma surgeon performing, for instance, orthopaedic damage control? …