How can trauma surgeons maintain their operative skills?

Kevin M. Schuster; Peter P. Lopez; Tobi Greene; Kerry Wheeler; Dror Soffer; Fahim Habib; Stephen M. Cohn; Carl I. Schulman

doi:10.1097/TA.0b013e31817db08f

How can trauma surgeons maintain their operative skills?

Kevin M. Schuster, Peter P. Lopez, Tobi Greene, Kerry Wheeler, Dror Soffer, Fahim Habib, Stephen M. Cohn, Carl I. Schulman

Department of Surgery

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Abstract

Trauma operative experience decreased but emergency general surgery increased over a decade at our trauma center. It appears possible to maintain a busy operative trauma service by the inclusion of emergency general surgery consultations.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	387-389
Number of pages	3
Journal	Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care
Volume	65
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0b013e31817db08f
State	Published - Aug 2008

Keywords

Elective general surgery
Emergency general surgery
Surgical skills
Trauma surgery

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Surgery
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

Access to Document

10.1097/TA.0b013e31817db08f

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