Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy.
• ² Department of Surgery, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA.
• ³ Department of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
• ⁴ Comparative Effectiveness and Clinical Outcomes Research Center, Riverside University Health System Medical Center, Moreno Valley, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA.
• ⁶ Emergency Medicine Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Trauma Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia.
• ⁸ Department of Surgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹⁰ Division of Trauma, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, QLD, Australia.
• ¹¹ Chest Wall Injury Society, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ¹² Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of General Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore.
• ¹⁵ Discipline of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
• ¹⁶ Ethiopian Air Force Hospital, Bishoftu, Oromia, Ethiopia. sologbeka@gmail.com.
• ¹⁷ Department of Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, University of Milano, Milan, Italy.
• ¹⁸ General and Emergency Surgery Department, School of Medicine and Surgery, Milano-Bicocca University, Monza, Italy.
• ¹⁹ Department of Surgery, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
• ²⁰ Collegium Medicum, University of Social Sciences, Lodz, Poland.
• ²¹ Department of General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy.
• ²² Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
• ²³ Department of Management, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy.
• ²⁴ Department of Minimally Invasive Emergency and General Surgery, Infermi Hospital, Rimini, Italy.
• ²⁵ Department of Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, General Surgery Cannizzaro Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
• ²⁶ General Surgery Department Hospital of San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche Region, Italy.
• ²⁷ Department of General Surgery, University of Medicine of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
• ²⁸ Pediatric Surgery, Children's Care Center, SRH Klinikum Suhl, Suhl, Thueringen, Germany.
• ²⁹ Division of Trauma Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
• ³⁰ Faculdade de Medicina, SUPREMA, Hospital Universitario Terezinha de Jesus de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, MG, Brazil.
• ³¹ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, Portsmouth, UK.
• ³² Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada.
• ³³ Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital and University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
• ³⁴ Department of Surgical Diseases No. 3, University Clinic, Gomel State Medical University, Gomel, Belarus.
• ³⁵ Policlinico Umberto I University Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ³⁶ Colorectal Surgery Unit, Trauma Care Committee, Alicante General University Hospital, Alicante, Spain.
• ³⁷ Departments of Surgery, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
• ³⁸ Department of Surgical Science, Emergency Surgery Unit, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
• ³⁹ General Surgery Department, Medical University, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
• ⁴⁰ Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
• ⁴¹ Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Novena, Singapore.
• ⁴² Department of Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
• ⁴³ Government Gousia Hospital, Srinagar, India.
• ⁴⁴ Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al‑Ain, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁴⁵ Division of Trauma/Acute Care Surgery, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, CA, USA.
• ⁴⁶ Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
• ⁴⁷ Department of Surgery, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
• ⁴⁸ Department of Trauma Surgery and Orthopedics, University Hospital Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ⁴⁹ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Parma University Hospital, Parma, Italy.
• ⁵⁰ 3rd Department of Surgery, Attikon General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece.
• ⁵¹ Healthcare Administration, Santa Maria Delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna, Italy.