Acute Care Surgery

Preferred Label : Acute Care Surgery;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : Acute Care Surgeries; Surgery, Acute Care; Surgical Critical Care; Critical Care, Surgical; Surgical Critical Cares; Emergency General Surgery; Emergency General Surgeries; General Surgery, Emergency;

Related MeSH term : Trauma Surgeries; Surgical Trauma Care; Surgical Trauma Cares; Trauma Care, Surgical;

Details

Origin ID

D000096725;

UMLS CUI

C4049838;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Record concept(s)
- Acute Care Surgery [MeSH concept]
- Trauma Surgery [MeSH concept]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Surgical critical care [LOINC method]
- Trauma surgery [LOINC method]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Surgical critical care [LOINC method]

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