WSES SM (World Society of Emergency Surgery Summer Meeting) highlights: emergency surgery around the world (Brazil, Finland, USA)

Renato Poggetti; Ari Leppanemi; Paula Ferrada; Juan Carlos Puyana; Andrew B Peitzman; Luca Ansaloni; Fausto Catena; Antonio D Pinna; Ernest E Moore

doi:10.1186/1749-7922-4-11

WSES SM (World Society of Emergency Surgery Summer Meeting) highlights: emergency surgery around the world (Brazil, Finland, USA)

World J Emerg Surg. 2009 Mar 30:4:11. doi: 10.1186/1749-7922-4-11.

Authors

Renato Poggetti¹, Ari Leppanemi, Paula Ferrada, Juan Carlos Puyana, Andrew B Peitzman, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena, Antonio D Pinna, Ernest E Moore

Affiliation

¹ General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery DPT St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy. fcatena@aosp.bo.it.

Abstract

Emergency surgery is performed in every hospital with a A and E unit all around the world. However it is organized in different ways with different results.Aim of this paper is to present history, current scope, current training program and new politics for training national program of 3 countries of different continents.Brazil, Finland and US emergency surgery models are presented discussing all criticisms showed during the WSES Summer Meeting 2008.