The specialty of surgical critical care: A white paper from the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Critical Care Committee.

J Trauma Acute Care Surg

From the Department of Surgery (C.P.M.), Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia; Department of Surgery (J.N.), University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.; Department of Surgery (E.L.R.), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Surgery (J.F.R.), Maine Medical Center, Portland, Maine; Department of Surgery (R.P.G.), Loyola University Medical Center, Hines, Illinois; Department of Surgery (A.S.P.), Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Department of Surgery (K.K.), UCSF, Fresno, Fresno, California.

Published: August 2022

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