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Expertise and involvement with trauma per specialty
| Acute care dedication | Surgical specialty | Physiologic knowledge (trauma specific) | Long term care | Multisystem approach | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency physicians | ++ | − | + | − | ++ |
| Anaesthesiologists | +/− | − | ++ | − | ± |
| Intensivists | +/− | − | + | − | + |
| Orthopaedic surgeons | − | ++ | − | ++ | − |
| Abdominal surgeons | − | ++ | +/− | ++ | − |
| Thoracic surgeons | − | ++ | − | − | − |
| Trauma surgeons | ++ | ++ | + | ++ | ++ |
