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Abstract
Surgical specialty generally encompassing emergency general surgery, surgical critical care and trauma care. Acute care surgery is a component of general surgery related to care of patients with acute, life-threatening or potentially life-threatening surgical conditions.
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- Emergency General Surgery
- Surgical Critical Care
- Acute Care Surgeries
- Critical Care, Surgical
- Emergency General Surgeries
- General Surgery, Emergency
- Surgery, Acute Care
- Surgical Critical Cares
- Surgical Trauma Care
- Trauma Surgery
- Surgical Trauma Cares
- Trauma Care, Surgical
- Trauma Surgeries
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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2024
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Acute Care Surgery. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000096725. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000096725
- Acute Care Surgery. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124285243