About the Author: Michael Sugrue is Consultant Surgeon at Letterkenny University Hospital and University Hospital Galway Ireland. He qualified from University College Galway and during his 20 years at Liverpool Hospital in Sydney he obtained his MD for his work on intra-abdominal pressure and renal failure, on which he has published widely. He has achieved many awards for his educational initiatives, including the ESR Hughes Medal from the Australasian College of Surgeons in 2008. He has published over 150 papers. Michael is a busy surgeon on call at one of Ireland busier Emergency Surgery Hospitals. He enjoys his clinical work and surgery. He is lead in emergency surgery the EU funded emergency surgery outcome advancement project.

Ron Maier earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame and his M.D. from Duke University. He first came to the University of Washington to complete his general surgery residency. After a postdoctoral fellowship in immunopathology, he returned to the University of Washington as an attending surgeon. After 30 years as a faculty member, he is now the surgeon-in-chief of Harborview Medical Center, and professor and vice-chair of surgery at the University of Washington and is listed in "The Best Doctors in America."

Ernest Moore has been the editor of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery since 2012, and was the chief of trauma at the Denver General Hospital for 36 years, chief of surgery for 28 years, and the first Bruce M. Rockwell Distinguished Chair in Trauma Surgery. He continues to serve as vice chairman for Research and is a Distinguished Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado Denver.
Dr. Moore has served as president of nine academic societies, including the Society of University Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, International Association for the Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care, and the World Society of Emergency Surgery.

Fausto Catena is currently chief of the Emergency Surgery Department, Parma University Hospital, Italy. Until 2011, he worked as a consultant general surgeon at the Dept. of General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery of the St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy. He is editor-in-chief of the World Journal of Emergency Surgery, former editor of European Surgical Research, editor of the Open Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Journal, the World Journal of Gastroenterology and many other top ranking journals as well as a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics. He is general secretary of the World Society of Emergency Surgery.

Federico Coccolini, MD, is currently working as a general, emergency and trauma surgeon at the General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Dept. of Bufalini Hospital in Cesena (Italy). His main fields of interest are emergency surgery, trauma surgery, trauma patient management, as well as emergency and trauma system organization and implementation, and abdominal surgery. He has published widely (more than 100 papers) and has written several book chapters, most of them as first author. He is the main investigator of IROA (International Register of Open Abdomen), the widest multicenter cohort study on open abdomen patients ever performed, which is recruiting hundreds of patients from all around the world.

Yoram Kluger, MD is the chief of the division of general surgery and the medical director of the pancreatic surgery service at Rambam Health Care Campus. He is Associate Professor of Medicine at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and was recently appointed chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine. Founder and director of the Rabin Trauma Center at Tel Aviv Medical Center, he was the first in Israel to establish a dedicated hospitalization center for patients with multiple injuries. He is recognized worldwide for his research on medical preparedness and medical infrastructure management in mass casualty situations. He holds a position on the board of the World Society of Emergency Surgery and is the Israeli delegate to the European Society for Emergency Surgery and Trauma. Dr. Kluger has published more than 220 scientific papers.