De toekomst van trauma chirurgie

Grossman MD. The future of trauma surgery. Ann Emerg Med 2009 Sep;54(3):479-80

in dit artikel geeft Grossman commentaar op het artikel van Green in de februari-editie 2009 van Annals of Emergency Medicine. Als sterke voorstanders van de rol van de SEH-artsen in de traumazorg en programma-directeuren van een trauma fellowship op de spoedeisende hulp, is het artikel relevant voor onze professionele interesses.

We read with interest the article by Green in the February 2009 issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine. As strong advocates of the role of emergency physicians in trauma care and program directors of a trauma/critical fellowship for emergency medicine trainees, the article has relevance to our professional interests.1

Unfortunately, the article does little to advance the cause of emergency physicians who seek a broader role in the administrative design and clinical implementation of trauma systems. Instead, the article focuses on the collapse of general and trauma surgery, issues related to “surgical personalities,” and the changing demographics of the trauma patient population that make trauma surgeons extraneous in the majority of cases. While some of these arguments may be valid, they are highly complex issues and evidence presented to support them is often anecdotal, oversimplified, or inaccurate.

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Ook Stone en Exadaktylos hebben een stukje commentaar geschreven op het artikel van Green

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