Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate operative procedures that young acute care surgeons (ACSs) should learn and perform. The operative procedures that the three ACSs in the critical care center of our hospital performed during two years were evaluated with an electrical operative database. One ACS performed 164 operative cases per year, which included 116 emergency operations. Appendectomies accounted for half of these operations, and the remaining operations included colon perforation, small bowel obstruction and so on. Sixty percent of patients with acute cholecystitis and 54% with gastroduodenal perforation underwent laparoscopic procedures. Trauma procedures were rare, and the ACS should perform trauma operations with an attending trauma surgeon.
