Personalized Medicine in Acute Care Surgery: Are We Ready to Deal with Our Failures?

During the first decade of the 21st century, the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), the Western Trauma Association (WTA), the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) established an ad hoc committee to develop a new specialty that embraces trauma surgery, critical surgical care, and emergency surgery [...].