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Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom

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The United Kingdom can, with some justification, claim to be the first country to introduce a modern, comprehensive accident service. Historically, England, Wales, and Northern Ireland were divided into counties, each with a county town, a diocese, a cathedral and bishop, and a hospital. During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), a large number of hospitals were built; these formed the basis of the United Kingdom’s district general hospitals.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Basildon University Hospital, Basildon, England, UK

    Bernard F. Ribeiro MB, BS

  2. Department of Surgery, The Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Simon Paterson-Brown MBBS, MPh

  3. University Department of Surgery and The Transplant Unit, The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Murat Akyol MD

  4. Department of Vascular and Trauma Surgery, The Royal London Hospital, London, England, UK

    Michael Walsh BSc, MS

  5. Department of Surgery and Remote and Rural Medicine, University of Highlands and Islands, Western Isles Hospital, Stornoway, Scotland, UK

    Andrew Sim MBBS, MS

  6. Department of General Surgery, Trauma Service, Royal London Hospital, London, England, UK

    Christopher Aylwin BSc, MBBS, MRCS

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  1. Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA

    L. D. Britt MD, MPH (Brickhouse Professor of Surgery and Chairman) (Brickhouse Professor of Surgery and Chairman)

  2. Department of Surgery, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR, USA

    Donald D. Trunkey MD (Professor) (Professor)

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    David V. Feliciano MD (Professor of Surgery, Chief of Surgery) (Professor of Surgery, Chief of Surgery)

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Ribeiro, B.F., Paterson-Brown, S., Akyol, M., Walsh, M., Sim, A., Aylwin, C. (2007). Acute Care Surgery: United Kingdom. In: Britt, L.D., Trunkey, D.D., Feliciano, D.V. (eds) Acute Care Surgery. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-69012-4_49

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