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Acute care surgery organization in the world

Edited by:
Adjunct Professor Brian Anthony Tian Wei Cheng, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 
 

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 31 October 2024


World Journal of Emergency Surgery is calling for submissions to our Collection on Acute care surgery organization in the world. Globally, the acute care surgery (ACS) system is increasingly seen as a necessary part of a matured healthcare system. However, ACS is still in its early days. Until healthcare systems figure out how to establish a proficient ACS system, the way ACS is practiced will vary widely across the globe. The focus of this topical collection would be to gather insights into how each country organizes its ACS system to best serve its needs, whilst adapting to the usual constraints of manpower, time and resources. This topical collection welcomes full-length Research articles, Brief Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, Case Studies, Registered Reports, and Data Notes. The aim would be to give readers a broader sense of the various ways ACS can be organized and managed, so that the reader can ultimately develop their own system.

Meet the Guest Editor

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Brian Anthony Tian Wei Cheng, Adj Professor, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 

Adj Professor Brian Anthony Tian is an acute care surgeon with Singapore General Hospital (SGH). SGH has been consistently ranked as one of the world’s best hospitals by Newsweek. He sits on the editorial boards of several international journals and also is a reviewer of several renowned international journals. He passionately believes that the ACS system is a natural evolution of a matured healthcare system. Yet, it remains one of the most underserved specialties. More awareness, research and innovation can be done to further improve the delivery of care via this ACS model, and ultimately benefit patients globally in a huge, meaningful and impactful manner.

  1. No standard treatment guidelines have been established for postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). We aimed to assess the differences in outcomes and prognoses between patients with PPH who underwent surgical and non-sur...

    Authors: Ye Won Jung, Jin Kim, Won Kyo Shin, Soo Youn Song, Jae Sung Choi, Suk Hwan Hyun, Young Bok Ko, Mina Lee, Byung Hun Kang, Bo Young Kim, Jin Hong Min, Yong Nam In, Sang Min Jung, Se Kwang Oh and Heon Jong Yoo
    Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2024 19:27
  2. Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) has been used to control massive hemorrhages. Although there is no consensus on the efficacy of REBOA, it remains an option as a bridging thera...

    Authors: Hiromasa Hoshi, Akira Endo, Ryo Yamamoto, Kazuma Yamakawa, Keisuke Suzuki, Tomohiro Akutsu and Koji Morishita
    Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2024 19:19
  3. For traumatic lower extremity artery injury, it is unclear whether it is better to perform endovascular therapy (ET) or open surgical repair (OSR). This study aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of ET versu...

    Authors: Yuhan Qi, Jiarong Wang, Ding Yuan, Pengchao Duan, Li Hou and Tiehao Wang
    Citation: World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2024 19:16

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of full-length Research articles, Brief Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, Comments, Case Studies, Registered Reports, and Data Notes. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. 

Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. Please, select the appropriate Collection title “Acute care surgery organization in the world" under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer-review process. The peer-review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.