Emergency Surgery: Atavistic Refuge of the General Surgeon? | Zendy

B.J.A. Lankester | Zendy; D C Britton | Zendy; A G Holbrook | Zendy; H C Umpleby | Zendy; J J T Tate | Zendy; J. Budd | Zendy; P.R. Maddox | Zendy; M Horrocks | Zendy

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Emergency Surgery: Atavistic Refuge of the General Surgeon?

Author(s) -

B.J.A. Lankester,

D C Britton,

A G Holbrook,

H C Umpleby,

J J T Tate,

J. Budd,

P.R. Maddox,

M Horrocks

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107680109400407

Subject(s) - specialty , audit , medicine , emergency surgery , medical emergency , general surgery , soft tissue , medical audit , trauma surgery , surgery , orthopedic surgery , family medicine , management , economics

A prospective audit of emergency soft-tissue surgery for an eight-week period revealed that general surgical emergency operations were more than twice as common as those undertaken in other soft-tissue specialties. The audit reveals that emergency general surgery needs an increase in resources, an increase in available staff and an increase in the role of the consultant general surgeon on call. An alternative solution would be to admit soft-tissue emergencies by specialty and develop specialist emergency services.

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