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Lacerated spleen injury. should surgeon or trauma doctor answer our questions?

7 doctors weighed in across 3 answers

Yes: Your surgeon should answer your questions. Realize that they will have a very busy emergency schedule, so select one member of your family to ask the questions from your group & that selected person to relay the answers back to your group. Do not have multiple individuals from your group all call and each try to ask questions.

Answered 8/22/2013

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Dr. Abraham Houng answered

Specializes in Critical Care

Both: All general surgeons are trauma trained. Trauma surgeons are general surgeons with trauma fellowship training.

Answered 12/11/2015

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Dr. Joseph Pfeifer answered

Specializes in Trauma Surgery

Spleen: Trauma "doctors" are surgeons; all general surgeons are trained in trauma. ED physicians are not "trauma doctors", though they get some training in trauma as well. Spleen injury is surgical problem.

Answered 9/28/2016

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