National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital Researchers Update Understanding of Acute Care Surgery (New Concept of a Surgical Hospitalist: Early Experience of Managing the Admission, Critical Care, Trauma Surgery Team): Surgery – Acute Care Surgery

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2023 OCT 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Medical Devices Daily -- Fresh data on acute care surgery are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Goyang, South Korea, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “The demand for hospitalists is increasing due to decreasing numbers of clinical residents and increased concerns regarding patient safety.”

Financial supporters for this research include National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital: “However, several limitations in the surgical hospitalist role exist. The personnel of the surgical hospitalist, rapid response team (RRT), surgical critical care, and trauma surgery teams were unified under the admission, critical care, and trauma surgery (ACTs) team at this institution. The ACTs target are patients with severe disease not undergoing general postoperative course, or patients with the potential for severe conversion. Two surgical intensivists are on duty once a week and oversee the intensive care unit (ICU), the back-up treatment of critically ill patients, and the immediate treatment of trauma patients. ACTs also participate in the surgical RRT and select patients with a high probability of severe exacerbation. Between 2019-2021, the cardiopulmonary resuscitation incidence per 1,000 hospitalized patients in the surgical department decreased significantly from 0.81 to 0.55.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “From March to December 2021, the ACTs team were involved with 101 of 158 surgical patients admitted to the ICU: 62 with postoperative status, 29 with severe trauma, and 10 transferred to the ICU via RRT screening. Based on our experience, the role of the ACTs team can help improve patient safety.”

For more information on this research see: New Concept of a Surgical Hospitalist: Early Experience of Managing the Admission, Critical Care, Trauma Surgery Team. Journal of Acute Care Surgery, 2022,12(3):91-96. The publisher for Journal of Acute Care Surgery is Korean Society of Acute Care Surgery.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.17479/jacs.2022.12.3.91.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Sungho Lee, Department of Surgery, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Kwanhoon Park, Kang Yoon Lee, Ji Young Jang.