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Descriptor English: Acute Care Surgery
Descriptor Spanish: Cirugía de Cuidados Intensivos
Descriptor cirugía de cuidados agudos
Entry term(s) cirugía general de emergencia
cirugía traumatológica
cuidados críticos quirúrgicos
cuidados traumatológicos quirúrgicos
Scope note: Especialidad quirúrgica que generalmente comprende la cirugía general de emergencia, los cuidados críticos quirúrgicos y los cuidados traumatológicos. La cirugía de cuidados agudos es un componente de la cirugía general relacionado con la atención de pacientes con afecciones quirúrgicas agudas, que ponen en peligro la vida o que podrían poner en peligro la vida.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cirurgia de Cuidados Críticos
Descriptor French: Without translation
Entry term(s): Acute Care Surgeries
Critical Care, Surgical
Emergency General Surgeries
Emergency General Surgery
General Surgery, Emergency
Surgery, Acute Care
Surgical Critical Care
Surgical Critical Cares
Surgical Trauma Care
Surgical Trauma Cares
Trauma Care, Surgical
Trauma Surgeries
Trauma Surgery
Tree number(s): H02.403.810.104
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000096725
Scope note: 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.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 2024
History Note: 2024
DeCS ID: 60510
Unique ID: D000096725
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Date Established: 2024/01/01
Date of Entry: 2023/07/26
Revision Date: 2023/07/03
Acute Care Surgery - Preferred
Concept UI M000762573
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Acute Care Surgery
Entry term(s) Acute Care Surgeries
Critical Care, Surgical
Emergency General Surgeries
Emergency General Surgery
General Surgery, Emergency
Surgery, Acute Care
Surgical Critical Care
Surgical Critical Cares
Trauma Surgery - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000765566
Preferred term Trauma Surgery
Entry term(s) Surgical Trauma Care
Surgical Trauma Cares
Trauma Care, Surgical
Trauma Surgeries



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