Acknowledgements
The authors sincerely thank all collaborators of the study for participation in the survey.
The WSES COVID-19 emergency surgery survey collaboration group:
Abakar Abdullaev, Department of Abdominal Surgery, Vladimir City Emergency Hospital, Vladimir, Russia
Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Hospital Universitario Dr. José Eleuterio Gonzalez, Mexico
Adriana Toro, General Surgery, Augusta Hospital, Augusta (SR), Italy
Alain Chichom-Mefire, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Buea, Cameroon
Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Doctor Peset University Hospital, Valencia, Spain
Alfie J Kavalakat, Jubilee Mission Medical College & RI, Thrissur, India
Ali Yasen Y Mohamedahmed, General Surgery, Sandwell General Hospital, Birmingham, UK
Andrey Litvin, Department of Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russia
Antonio Brillantino, Department of Surgery, A. Cardarelli Hospital, Naples, Italy
Antonio Pesce, Policlinico Abano Terme, Padua, Italy
Arda Isik, General Surgery Department, Erzincan University Hospital, Erzincan, Turkey
Aristotelis Kechagias, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Kanta-Häme Central Hospital, Hämeenlinna, Finland
Azzain M H Ismail, Department of Trauma & Orthopaedics, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK
Baris Mantoglu, General Surgery, Sakarya University Educating and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
Basil Ibrahim, Speciality Registrar in Colorectal surgery, University hospital of north Durham, UK
Birgit Hecker, Department of Anesthesiology, St. Josefs Hospital, Gießen, Germany
Boris Sakakushev, Research Institute at Medical University Plovdiv, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Charalampos Seretis, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, UK
Dimitrios Manatakis, Department of Surgery, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
Edgar Fernando Hernández García, Cirugía General y Laparoscópica, Cirugía de trauma, Hospital Central Militar, Mexico
Elif Çolak, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Samsun Training and Research Hospital, Turkey
Elmin Steyn, Division of Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Emrah Akin, Department of General Surgery, Sakarya University Educating and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
Emre Gonullu, General Surgery, Sakarya University Educating and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
Fabio Cesare Campanile, General Sugery, San Giovanni Decollato /Andosilla Hospital, Civita Castellana VT, Italy
Francesco Pata, Department of Surgery, Nicola Giannettasio Hospital, Corigliano-Rossano, Italy
Francesco Roscio, Department of General Surgery, ASST Valle Olona, Busto Arsizio, Italy
Fredrik Linder, Gävle county Hospital, Gävle, Sweden
Gia Tomadze, Surgery Department, Tbilisi State Medical University, Tiblisi, Georgia
Gianluca Pellino, Colorectal Surgery, Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Gianmaria Casoni Pattacini, Department of General Surgery, Emergencies and New Technologies, Baggiovara Civil Hospital, Modena, Italy
Giovanni Pirozzolo, Dell'Angelo Hospital, Venice, Italy
Gustavo M. Machain, Jefe de Catedra y Servicio de Cirugia General, II Catedra, Hospital de Clinicas, FCM, Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Paraguay
Gustavo P. Fraga, School of Medical Sciences (SMS), University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil
Hazim Abdulnassir Eltyeb, St4 General Surgery, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Ioannis Nikolopoulos, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Isidoro Di Carlo, Department of Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies, General Surgery, University of Catania, Cannizzaro Hospital, Catania, Italy
Jae Il Kim, Department of Surgery, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, South Korea
Jesus-Manuel Saenz-Terrazas, Weapon Traumatology and Training Center, Dar Al-Chifae Hospital, Tripoli, Lebanon
Juan Carlos Rodriguez Sanjuan, Jefe de Servicio de Cirugía General, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla (Santander), Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Juliane Liese, Department of General, Visceral, Thoracic, Transplant and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Justin Davies, Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK
Kim Platte, Ziekenhuis Amstelland, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Lawrence Lottenberg, Department of Surgery, Florida Atlantic University Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA
Leonardo Pagani, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Infectious Diseases Unit, Bolzano Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
Leonardo Solaini, General and Oncologic Surgery, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, Forlì, Italy
Lisa Miller, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, USA
Lovenish Bains, Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India
Luis Buonomo, Hospital “Dr. Alberto Balestrini”, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Maciej Walędziak, Department of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
Mahir Gachabayov, Department of abdominal surgery, Vladimir City Emergency Hospital, Vladimir, Russia
Marc Maegele, Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, Institute for Research in Operative Medicine (IFOM), Cologne-Merheim Medical Center (CMMC), University Witten/Herdecke, Campus Cologne-Merheim, Cologne, Germany
Marco Catarci, General Surgery Unit, C.e G. Mazzoni Hospital, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
Marco Vittorio Rossi Ardizzone, Italy
Maria Grazia Alberio, Chirurgia generale d'urgenza, Ospedale di circolo – Varese, Italy
Massimiliano Veroux, General Surgery and Organ Transplant Unit, Azienda Policlinico University of Catania, Catania, Italy
Matteo Nardi, S. Giovanni Calibita Hospital-Fatebenefratelli Foundation, Rome, Italy
Mauro Podda, Department of Emergency Surgery, Cagliari University Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
Michael Sugrue, Department of Surgery, Letterkenny University Hospital and Centre for Personalised Medicine, Donegal, Ireland
Michele Pisano, General Surgery Unit, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Mihail Slavchev, Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Eurohospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Mika Ukkonen, Department of Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Miklosh Bala, Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, Hadassah - Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Mircea Chirica, Department of Digestive Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
Mouaqit Ouadii, Hassan II Hospital, Fes, Morocco
Orestis Ioannidis, 4th Surgical Department, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Osvaldo Chiara, Trauma and Emergency Surgery, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Pankaj Kumar, Department of General Surgery, Bhubaneswar,Odisha, India
Per Örtenwall, Department of Surgery, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Pradeep Navsaria, Trauma Center, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Raul Coimbra, Surgery, Loma Linda University School of Medicine, Riverside University Health System, Riverside, USA
Riccardo Somigli
Robert G. Sawyer, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Saad Shebrain, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Salomone Di Saverio, Surgery 1st unit, University Hospital of Varese, Varese, Italy
Sanjay Marwah, PGIMS Rohtak, Rohtak, India
Sergio Zegarra
Shahd Nour, North Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Shahed Abdelmahmoud
Stefano Magnone, General Surgery, Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy
Syed Muhammad Ali, Acute Care Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Tadeja Pintar, Abdominal Surgery Department, UMC Ljubljana Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tushar S Mishra, Department of Trauma & Emergency, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
Valentina Tomajer, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy
Varut Lohsiriwat, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Vijay Shivpuje, Yashodhara Superspeciality Hospital, Solapur Maharashtra, India
Vladimir Khokha, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus
Yoshiro Kobe, Department of Surgery, Chiba Emergency Medical Center, Chiba, Japan
Zaza Demetrashvili, Surgery Department, Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia