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Copyright © 2009 Poggetti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. WSES SM (World Society of Emergency Surgery Summer Meeting) highlights: emergency surgery around the world (Brazil, Finland, USA) Renato Poggetti,1 Ari Leppanemi,2 Paula Ferrada,3 Juan Carlos Puyana,3 Andrew B Peitzman,3 Luca Ansaloni,4 Fausto Catena,  4 Antonio D Pinna,4 and Ernest E Moore51Emergency Surgical Service, Emergency Surgical Service Hospital das Clinicas, School of Medicine, San Paulo, Brazil 2Department of Surgery Meilahti hospital University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 3University of Pittsburgh Medical Canter, Pittsburgh, USA 4General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery DPT St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy 5Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, USA Corresponding author.Renato Poggetti: poggetti/at/terra.com.br; Ari Leppanemi: ari.leppaniemi/at/hus.fi; Paula Ferrada: peitzmanab/at/msx.upmc.edu; Juan Carlos Puyana: peitzmanab/at/msx.upmc.edu; Andrew B Peitzman: peitzmanab/at/msx.upmc.edu; Luca Ansaloni: lansaloni/at/aosp.bo.it; Fausto Catena: fcatena/at/aosp.bo.it; Antonio D Pinna: tonyirc/at/yahoo.com; Ernest E Moore: ernest.moore/at/dhha.org Received December 30, 2008; Accepted March 30, 2009. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||
Abstract Emergency surgery is performed in every hospital with a A and E unit all around the world. However it is organized in different ways with different results. Aim of this paper is to present history, current scope, current training program and new politics for training national program of 3 countries of different continents. Brazil, Finland and US emergency surgery models are presented discussing all criticisms showed during the WSES Summer Meeting 2008. | ||||
