Michael Sugrue - Resources for Optimal Care of Emergency Surgery

This series covers the most debated issues in acute care and trauma surgery, from perioperative management to organizational and health policy issues.

Since 2011, the founder members of the World Society of Emergency Surgerys (WSES) Acute Care and Trauma Surgeons group, who endorse the series, realized the need to provide more educational tools for young surgeons in training and for general physicians and other specialists new to this discipline: WSES is currently developing a systematic scientific and educational program founded on evidence-based medicine and objective experience. Covering the complex management of acute trauma and non-trauma surgical patients, this series makes a significant contribution to this program and is a valuable resource for both trainees and practitioners in acute care surgery.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15718

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Research is fundamentally altering the daily practice of acute care surgery (trauma, surgical critical care, and emergency general surgery) for the betterment of patients around the world. Management for many diseases and conditions is radically different than it was just a few years ago. For this reason, concise up-to-date information is required to inform busy clinicians. Therefore, since 2011 the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), in partnership with the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), endorses the development and publication of the Hot Topics in Acute Care Surgery and Trauma, realizing the need to provide more educational tools for young in-training surgeons and for general physicians and other surgical specialists. These new forthcoming titles have been selected and prepared with this philosophy in mind. The books will cover the basics of pathophysiology and clinical management, framed with the reference that recent advances in the science of resuscitation, surgery, and critical care medicine have the potential to profoundly alter the epidemiology and subsequent outcomes of severe surgical illnesses and trauma.

Emergency surgery care delivery is a cornerstone of medicine, enshrined in a culture of curing patients presenting to our hospitals with a wide variety of emergency conditions. Managing acute admissions and presentations to emergency rooms, optimally from the outset, in a timely fashion with appropriate resources offers the best chance for cure.

Surgery and its increasingly interdisciplinary team approach to the emergency patient offers that hope. This books engenders a process of suggesting benchmarks and performance indicators to stimulate improvements in care processes and outcomes. Engagement with health administrators, governments and most importantly with the community is vital in moving forward. Emergency general surgery conditions take many lives. It accounts for over 10% of all hospital admissions and has evolved to medicines poor cousin, falling behind the advances and leadership in other medical fields, particular trauma and injury. The chapters in this book provide some leadership to move forward.

Our patients need us to advocate for change, where possible evidence based, giving them the best chance of survival with minimal morbidity and at a reasonable cost.