OBJECTIVE This review aims to assess the impact of implementing dedicated emergency surgical services, in particular acute care surgery, on clinical outcomes. BACKGROUND The optimal model for delivering high-quality emergency surgical care remains unknown. Acute Care Surgery (ACS) is a health care model combining emergency general surgery, trauma, and critical care. It has been adopted across...

BACKGROUND The Stent-In 2 trial randomized patients with malignant colonic obstruction to emergency surgery or stent placement as a bridge to elective surgery. The aim of this study was to compare the oncological outcomes. METHODS Disease recurrence, and disease-free, disease-specific and overall survival were evaluated, including a subgroup analysis of patients with a stent- or guidewire-rel...

Introduction: As off pump Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABG) is a developing method in coronary cardiac surgery, most surgeons are anxious about the danger of emergency crash conversion. In this observational study we tried to show the rate and outcome of conversion . Material and methods: In this descriptive study about 477 coronary off-pump CABG patients were operated in Ghaem hos...

1. “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, “St. Pantelimon” Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 2. Department of Surgery, Nephrology Clinical Hospital, “Dr. Carol Davila” UMPh, Bucharest, Romania 3. 2nd Surgery Department, ”St Mary” Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania 4. “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 3rd Ob...

Mathews Journal of Surgery An Adult Case of Congenital Bronchoesophageal Fistula Takeshi Nishimura1,4, Yoshihiko Kadowaki2, Kenji Hattori2, Takefumi Doi3, Ayako Watanabe2, Nobuhito Kubota2, Takahiro Okamoto2, Nobuhiro Ishido2, Toshihiko Sakamoto3, Atsunori Nakao4, Satoshi Ishihara1, Shinichi Nakayama1 1Hyogo Emergency Medical Center, Japan. 2Department of Surgery, Kobe Red Cross Hospital, Japan...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this investigation was to assess 30-day mortality among Danish inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) patients and to examine the prognostic impact of hospital total colectomy volume, age, gender and comorbidity. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING The authors compared 30-day survival over the period 1996-2010 among 2889 IBD patients with total colectomy identified in the Dani...