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Emergency Surgery: Recent Advances and Practical Strategies

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Emergency Medicine".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 September 2026 | Viewed by 424

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1.Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps, Surgeon General's Headquarters, Ramat Gan, Israel
2.The Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
Interests: emergency medicine; trauma surgery; emergency surgery; acute care
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Dear Colleagues,

At present, emergency surgery represents a critical continuum of care that begins in the prehospital setting and extends through early in-hospital management, where timely clinical decisions directly impact patient survival and functional outcomes. In recent years, increasing attention has been directed toward evaluating early management strategies and traditional practices using contemporary clinical data.

This Special Issue aims to present high-quality clinical research that advances the understanding of emergency surgical care across the early phases of patient management. Particular emphasis will be placed on studies examining prehospital assessment, triage, and initial interventions, and how these factors influence surgical decision-making, in-hospital management, and short- and long-term clinical outcomes.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following: emergency and acute care surgery; trauma and non-traumatic emergencies requiring surgical intervention; prehospital clinical assessment and early decision-making; timing of surgical interventions; risk stratification and outcome prediction; complications, functional recovery, and long-term outcomes following emergency surgery; and the evaluation of established clinical practices using real-world data, multicenter studies, and clinical registries.

Dr. Avi Benov
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • emergency surgery
  • acute care surgery
  • trauma
  • prehospital care
  • early decision-making
  • clinical outcomes
  • risk stratification
  • real-world evidence
  • registries

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Case Report
Recurrent Cervical Esophageal Fistula and Retroesophageal Abscess Following Surgical Management of Zenker’s Diverticulum
by Bogdan Mihnea Ciuntu, Andreea Ludusanu, Mara Teodora Zara, Mihaela Corlade-Andrei, Adelina Tanevski, Cristinel Ionel Stan, Dragos Andrei Chiran, Dan Vintila, Dan Andronic and Gheorghe Balan
J. Clin. Med. 2026, 15(7), 2777; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm15072777 - 7 Apr 2026
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Background: Zenker’s diverticulum arises from the posterior hypopharyngeal wall through Killian’s dehiscence and predominantly affects older adults. Surgical and endoscopic treatments may be complicated by adverse events, including recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, cervical emphysema, mediastinitis, and pharyngoesophageal fistula formation. Methods: We [...] Read more.
Background: Zenker’s diverticulum arises from the posterior hypopharyngeal wall through Killian’s dehiscence and predominantly affects older adults. Surgical and endoscopic treatments may be complicated by adverse events, including recurrent laryngeal nerve injury, cervical emphysema, mediastinitis, and pharyngoesophageal fistula formation. Methods: We report the case of a 69-year-old male who underwent open surgical treatment for Zenker’s diverticulum and subsequently developed an upper esophageal fistula complicated by a retroesophageal abscess. Results: The patient was treated using an externally adapted endoluminal vacuum-assisted closure system (EndoVAC), which enabled continuous drainage, local lavage, and progressive closure of the esophageal defect. Conclusions: Endo-VAC therapy represents a safe and minimally invasive therapeutic option for the management of postoperative esophageal fistulas following Zenker’s diverticulum surgery and may reduce the need for extensive esophageal reconstruction. Full article
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